1833 - Walker to Reuben, Wilson & Calvert - Albemarle Co, VA
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Date
08/09/1833
Manumitter
Number of Persons
3
Text of Freedom Document
Will Book June the 6th 1833
Knowing that it is appointed once for all persons to die but the time when for wise reasons concealed from our knowledge and wishing to liberate my black people and also my mulattos.
I Martha F Walker of the County of Albemarle constitute this my last will and testament the two thousand dollars in the hands of Doctor man [?Pujo?] I wish to be appropriated to the purchase of the wives and youngest child of my three men Reuben, Wilson Tom and Calvert & should he chance to have wife or child that they may go with their husband. Any of this money that may be left I wish to be equally divided among my slaves to take them to some place where they may enjoy their liberty. I also leave them for the same purpose all monies due for hire after paying the Doctors; should this not be enough they must be hired out to raise a sufficient sum. I wish in Duke to retain in his hands one thousand dollars and to pay my sister Mildred T Goolsby of Kentucky the interest yearly and at her death to divide the money between her children and their heirs. The other thousand dollars in his hands I leave him on the condition that liberates Jessy to go with his wife support the old woman Phillis during her life and Jesse and her grand children so long as may be necessary for hem to remain in this state. To Martha Rice I leave my watch and to Elizabeth Rice the chain belonging to it. I constitute Richard Duke my executor and the Guardian and protector of my slaves my bedding and furniture with the exception of a table to Elizabeth Duke chest of drawers to Ann Rice to my sister Elizabeth F Michel the table to E Michel during her life. All my clothes to [?Mana?] Isabelle Walker
Martha F. Walker
Witness
EF Michel
Wm Duke
Will Book June 24 eighteen hundred and thirty three
Codicil to the foregoing will. It is my will and desire that the sum of three hundred dollars that I authorized Richard Duke to college to purchase a carriage shall be given to Dr. William Rice of Charlotte to purchase a carriage for my three nieces to wit Martha Rice, Elizabeth Rice and Ann Rice
Elizabeth F Michel
Mary W Broadhead
I hope the painful circumstances under which this will was written will be some apology for its defects
Elizabeth F Michel
August the 9th 1833
At a Court held for Albemarle County 5 August 1833
This Instrument of writing purporting to be the last will and testament of Martha F Walker dec’d was this day produced into Court and proved by the oaths of E.F. Michel and William J Duke subscribing witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded.
A Copy
Teste,
Ira Garrett, CC
Knowing that it is appointed once for all persons to die but the time when for wise reasons concealed from our knowledge and wishing to liberate my black people and also my mulattos.
I Martha F Walker of the County of Albemarle constitute this my last will and testament the two thousand dollars in the hands of Doctor man [?Pujo?] I wish to be appropriated to the purchase of the wives and youngest child of my three men Reuben, Wilson Tom and Calvert & should he chance to have wife or child that they may go with their husband. Any of this money that may be left I wish to be equally divided among my slaves to take them to some place where they may enjoy their liberty. I also leave them for the same purpose all monies due for hire after paying the Doctors; should this not be enough they must be hired out to raise a sufficient sum. I wish in Duke to retain in his hands one thousand dollars and to pay my sister Mildred T Goolsby of Kentucky the interest yearly and at her death to divide the money between her children and their heirs. The other thousand dollars in his hands I leave him on the condition that liberates Jessy to go with his wife support the old woman Phillis during her life and Jesse and her grand children so long as may be necessary for hem to remain in this state. To Martha Rice I leave my watch and to Elizabeth Rice the chain belonging to it. I constitute Richard Duke my executor and the Guardian and protector of my slaves my bedding and furniture with the exception of a table to Elizabeth Duke chest of drawers to Ann Rice to my sister Elizabeth F Michel the table to E Michel during her life. All my clothes to [?Mana?] Isabelle Walker
Martha F. Walker
Witness
EF Michel
Wm Duke
Will Book June 24 eighteen hundred and thirty three
Codicil to the foregoing will. It is my will and desire that the sum of three hundred dollars that I authorized Richard Duke to college to purchase a carriage shall be given to Dr. William Rice of Charlotte to purchase a carriage for my three nieces to wit Martha Rice, Elizabeth Rice and Ann Rice
Elizabeth F Michel
Mary W Broadhead
I hope the painful circumstances under which this will was written will be some apology for its defects
Elizabeth F Michel
August the 9th 1833
At a Court held for Albemarle County 5 August 1833
This Instrument of writing purporting to be the last will and testament of Martha F Walker dec’d was this day produced into Court and proved by the oaths of E.F. Michel and William J Duke subscribing witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded.
A Copy
Teste,
Ira Garrett, CC
Record Location
Will Book 11, Pg 256
Document Type
LW&T
Files
Collection
Citation
“1833 - Walker to Reuben, Wilson & Calvert - Albemarle Co, VA,” Manumission Project, accessed March 15, 2025, https://manumissionproject.omeka.net/items/show/1296.