1846 - Franklin to Mary Franklin - Prince Edward Co, VA

1846 - Franklin to Mary Franklin - Prince Edward Co, VA

11/02/1846

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Know all men by these presents that I Robert A. Franklin of the County of Prince Edward, have manumitted, emancipated and set free a negro girl slave named Mary Jane Frances Franklin, sometimes called Mary Franklin, she being my daughter was then sold to me, as her father, by Benjamin C. Peters of the Town of Farmville in Prince Edward County, and I hereby declare her the said Mary Jane Frances Franklin to be entirely liberated from slavery and entitled to all the rights of a free person so far as it is in my power to vest her. The said Mary Jane Frances Franklin is of brown complexion, no particular mark for distinction, about five feet one inch and three eights high, and she will be seventeen years old on the 7th day of December 1846. In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 24th day of October 1846.
Signed, sealed & delivered Rob A. Franklin (seal)
in presence of
Peyton R. Barkeley
W. F. Carrington
Tho. J. Spencer

Prince Edward County Court Clerk’s Office 2nd November 1846. This deed was acknowledged by Robert A. Franklin party thereto, to be his act and deed and admitted to record.
Teste, R.J. Worsham C.C.

DB 25:185

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