1848 - Vermillion to Charlotte - Pulaski Co, VA

1848 - Vermillion to Charlotte - Pulaski Co, VA

09/06/1848

1

Know all men by these presents that I John H. Vermillion of the County of Smyth and State of Virginia, have manumitted, emancipated and set free, and by these presents do manumit, emancipate and set free a negro woman slave named Charlotte (sometimes called Charlotte Pate) and I hereby declare her the said Charlotte to be entirely liberated from slavery, and entitled to all the rights and privileges of a free person with which it is my power to vests her. She the said Charlotte hereby emancipated is a woman of dark complexion, about five feet high and about forty seven years of age, and formerly belonged to William B. Charlton. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 13th day of May one thousand eight hundred and forty eight.
Jn H Vermillion
Teste
JB Alexander
MA Burnes
Benj F Wynn
Lynch A Currin

Virginia, In Pulaski County Court the 6th day of September 1848
This deed of emancipation was presented in court, proven by the oath of J.B. Alexander, B.F. Wynn, and Lynch A. Currin, three of the subscribing witnesses thereto, and ordered to be recorded.
Teste,
Lynch A. Currin C.

DB 2:163

Deed