1857 - Stras to Johnson - Tazewell Co, VA

Dublin Core

Title

1857 - Stras to Johnson - Tazewell Co, VA

Date

Manumission Item Data Item Type Metadata

Date

11/29/1857

Manumitter

Manumitted

Number of Persons

1

Text of Freedom Document

Know all men by these presents that I Joseph Stras of the County of Tazewell do hereby emancipate & set free a certain mulatto slave named Johnson who is about 48 years of age & a tanner by trade. In testimony whereof I do hereunto set my hand and affix my seal this 22nd day of September 1857.
J. Stras (seal)

Virginia: In the Clerk’s Office of Tazewell County Court the 29th day of November 1857.
This deed of emancipation from Joseph Stras to Johnson (a slave) was presented in the office aforesaid the above date & acknowledged before the clerk of said county by said Stras and admitted to record.
Teste,
S.S. Graham Clk

Record Location

DB 12:264

Document Type

Deed

Files

1857_Tazewell_Stras to Johnson_DB 12_264.jpg

Citation

“1857 - Stras to Johnson - Tazewell Co, VA,” Manumission Project, accessed February 12, 2025, https://manumissionproject.omeka.net/items/show/1965.