1830 - Steel, et al to Isaac Tate - Tazewell Co, VA

1830 - Steel, et al to Isaac Tate - Tazewell Co, VA

10/1830

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Know all men by these presents that we Richard Steel, Meshack White, and Shadrack White of the state of Virginia have manumitted, emancipated and set free a negro man slave named Isaac and sometimes called Isaac Tate who was sold and delivered to us by Thomas Tate of the county of Washington, Virginia by a bill of sale executed to us on the 4th day of July in the year 1829 and we hereby declare him the said Isaac to be entirely liberated from slavery and entitled to all the rights and privileges of a free person with which it is in our power to vest him. He the said Isaac is about five feet ten inches high and about thirty eight years of age. In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 23rd day of February 1830.
Teste, James F. Pendleton Richard Steel (seal)
Robert Young Meshack White (seal)
Shadrack White (seal)

Tazewell October term 1830
A deed emancipating Isaac sometimes called Isaac Tate a man of color by Richard Steel, Meshack White and Shadrack White was proven in court by the oath of James F. Pendleton and Robert Young witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded.
Teste,
French L. Pendleton D.C.

DB 5:128

Deed