1814 - Bowdoin to Godfrey - Brunswick Co, VA

1814 - Bowdoin to Godfrey - Brunswick Co, VA

08/22/1814

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Know all men by these presents that I John T Bowdoin of Surry County for and in consideration of the sum of four hundred dollars to me in hand paid by negro man Godfrey of the County of Brunswick a shoemaker by trade, have emancipated and by these presents do emancipate and forever set free the said negro Godfrey from this day henceforward – and I the said John T Bowdoin do for myself my heirs executors and administrators hereby release all claim to the service of the said negro Godfrey from this day to the end of his life. As witness my hand and seal this 15th day of August 1814.
John T Bowdoin (seal)
In presence of
Ludwill Powell
Isaac Mason

Brunswick County Court August 22nd 1814 This deed of emancipation was proved by the oaths of the witnesses thereto & ordered to be recorded.
Teste, Herbert Hill CBC

DB 22:313

Deed