1856 - Foster to Sterling Harris - Amelia County, VA

Dublin Core

Title

1856 - Foster to Sterling Harris - Amelia County, VA

Date

Manumission Item Data Item Type Metadata

Date

04/14/1856

Manumitter

Manumitted

Number of Persons

1

Text of Freedom Document

Know all men by these presents that I John T Foster of the County of Amelia and State of Virginia from motives of benevolence have manumitted and set free from slavery and do hereby manumit and set free from slavery my negro man Sterling Harris, and I do hereby give, grant and release unto the said Sterling Harris all my right title and claims of it and to his personal labor and services.In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this twenty sixth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty six.John T Foster (seal)VirginiaIn Amelia County Court Clerk’s Office 14thday of April 1856This deed of emancipation was this day produced in my office & acknowledged by John T Foster a party theretoand admitted to record.Teste, Ed. H Coleman Clerk

Record Location

DB 39:291

Document Type

Deed

Files

1856-Amelia-Foster-DB-39-291.jpg

Citation

“1856 - Foster to Sterling Harris - Amelia County, VA,” Manumission Project, accessed February 16, 2025, https://manumissionproject.omeka.net/items/show/1502.