1804 - Brown to Jack - Goochland Co, VA

Dublin Core

Title

1804 - Brown to Jack - Goochland Co, VA

Date

Manumission Item Data Item Type Metadata

Date

01/16/1804

Manumitter

Manumitted

Number of Persons

1

Text of Freedom Document

Know all men by these presents that I have this day emancipated a negro man by the name of Jack about thirty two years of age this shall oblige me & my heirs from this time to relinquish all claim or claims whatsoever to the above negro man forever. Given under my hand & seal this sixteenth day of Jan one thousand eight hundred & four.
John Brown (seal)
At a court of monthly session held for Goochland County at the courthouse on Monday the 10th of January 1804.
This deed of emancipation was acknowledged by John Brown a party thereto & is ordered to be recorded.
Teste, Wm Miller CGC
Truly recorded
Teste, Benjamin Anderson DCGC

Record Location

DB 18:720

Document Type

Deed

Files

1804_Goochland_Brown to Jack_DB 18_720.jpg

Citation

“1804 - Brown to Jack - Goochland Co, VA,” Manumission Project, accessed February 12, 2025, https://manumissionproject.omeka.net/items/show/1552.