1795 - Ellyson to Coss - Patrick Co, VA

1795 - Ellyson to Coss - Patrick Co, VA

07/30/1795

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I, John Ellyson of Patrick County in Virginia from mature deliberate Consideration and the Conviction of my own Mind being fully Persuaded that Freedom is the Natural Right of all Mankind that no Law Moral or Divine has give me a Right to, or Property in the Person of any of my fellow Creatures. Do therefore declare that having under my care a Negro Man Named Coss, I do for myself my Heirs Executors and Administrators hereby release unto him the said Coss all my Right Interest Claim or Pretension of Claim Whatsoever as to his Person or any Estate he shall acquire hereafter without any Interruption from me or any Person Claiming for by from or under me In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal this 30th day of July in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety Five
Teste
Robert Hudspeth William Campbell
John Ellyson C.S.
At a Court of Quarterly Sessions held for Patrick County on the 30th day of July 1795
The within Instrument of Writing for the Emancipation of Coss a Negro Man was Acknowledged by the within named John Ellyson to be his Act and Deed and the Same was Ordered to be recorded by the Court
Teste Samuel Staples Clk

DB 1:329

Deed