1851 - May to Adam Wilder - Dinwiddie Co, VA

Dublin Core

Title

1851 - May to Adam Wilder - Dinwiddie Co, VA

Date

Manumission Item Data Item Type Metadata

Date

10/20/1851

Manumitter

Manumitted

Number of Persons

1

Text of Freedom Document

I John P. May do hereby emancipate and set free Adam Wilder a slave purchased by me of Tho’s Wallace & David May Trustees of H.A. Garland and I do hereby invest said Adam with all the rights and privileges of a free person with which it is in my power to invest him. Given under my hand and seal October 20th 1851.
Jn P. May (seal)

At a County Court held for Dinwiddie County on the 20th day of October 1851. This deed of emancipation from John P. May to Adam Wilder was acknowledged by the said May to be his act and deed, and ordered to be recorded.
Teste,
Jn P. Crump CC

Record Location

DB 7:126

Document Type

Deed

Files

1851_Dinwiddie_May to Adam_DB 7_126.jpg

Citation

“1851 - May to Adam Wilder - Dinwiddie Co, VA,” Manumission Project, accessed February 12, 2025, https://manumissionproject.omeka.net/items/show/1756.