1820 - Gray to Polly Gray, et al - Powhatan Co, VA

1820 - Gray to Polly Gray, et al - Powhatan Co, VA

02/17/1820

3

$1

To all whom these presents shall come Greeting; Know ye that I Claiborne Gray, of the County Powhatan for and in consideration to and of the sum of one dollar current money of Virginia and for the natural love and affection I bear to my children, Polly Gray about 20 years of age, Harriatt Gray about 18 years of age, and her child, Jane Gray, about 2 years of age, being now my slaves, I do hereby emancipate and set free and their future increase forever, they being the negroes set free by a decree of the high court of Appeal to when they shall respectively arrive to the age of thirty years, all which will more fully appear, reference being had to the said decree of the said highest court of Appeals on the suit of Ned a pauper against Pleasants and Logan. And I do hereby forever warrant and defend the title to freedom to the said Polly Gray, Harriatt Gray and her child Jane Gray and their future increase, forever, against myself, my heirs, and against the claim of all other persons whatsoever. In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my hand and seal this 17th day of February, one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
Signed and sealed in Claiborne Gray (seal)
the presence of us:

At a Court of monthly sessions holden for the county of Powhatan on the 17th day of February 1820. This deed of emancipation was presented in court and acknowledged by Claiborne Gray, a party thereto, to be his act and deed, and thereupon the same was ordered to be recorded.
Teste, Wm S Dance C

DB 7:295

Deed