1782 - Younghusband to Parrot, et al - Goochland Co, VA

1782 - Younghusband to Parrot, et al - Goochland Co, VA

10/21/1782

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I Mary Younghusband of the County of Goochland in Virginia being fully persuaded that freedom is the natural right of all mankind and that it is my duty to do unto others as I would desire to be done by in the like situation, and having under my care seven negroes whom I have heretofore held as slaves, of the following names & ages (viz.) Parrot, aged about forty years; Sophia, twenty eight, Sall Cooper, twenty three, Sarah fifty five, Orio, twenty five, Dinah, twenty two, Arthur, twenty one, they being given to me by my mother Mary Pleasants by Deed of gift, bearing date the fourteenth day of the seventh month, called July Anno Dom, one thousand seven hundred & eighty one. I hereby emancipate & set free all and every of the above named slaves & I do for myself, my heirs, Exrs, & admrs relinquish all my right, title, interest & claim or pretensions of claim whatsoever, either to their persons or to any estate they may hereafter acquire. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this twenty first day of the tenth called October in the year of our lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty one.
Sealed and delivered Mary Younghusband (seal)
in presence of….
William Royster
Francis Pledge

At a court held for Goochland County October XXI MDCCLXXXII
This Deed of Manumission was proved by the oaths of Wm Royster & Francis Pledge to be the acts & deeds of Mary Younghusband & was thereupon ordered to be recorded.

DB 13:248

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