1804 - Doll to William Roweson - Wythe Co, VA
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Date
12/12/1804
Manumitter
Manumitted
Number of Persons
1
Text of Freedom Document
Frederick County, State of Maryland November the 5th 1804
This is to certify to whom these may come that William Roweson a negro man now living in Wythe County, Virginia has been a slave to me the subscriber from the ninth year of his age until he arrived nearly to the age of thirty six years and served me faithfully as a slave for said time and for sundry other good causes and terms done to me I set him free and give him his discharge June 27th 1800 which was immediately recorded in Frederick County records said discharge alluded to Kentucky as he meant to go immediately to Kentucky with Gen’l Matthews and was disappointed and stayed back in Wythe County where he now resides. And as said Roweson has called on me for another discharge (and the former one has either been lost or destroyed by ill designed persons in order to make a slave of him again as he has been put to trouble sundry times). Therefore I have thought reasonable to give this & caused the county seal to be affixed to the same & acknowledged the within instrument of writing before a magistrate of said county provided he stays or continues in Wythe County, Virginia or goes of further in any new state or states that are laid of or shall he laid of hereafter where lands provisions are cheap so as he can the sooner & quicker make something for himself as I have learned said negro whilst with me the house carpenters & [?joinces?] himself. I am no ways doubtful but what he can make a good decent living in Wythe or in any other new state or states aforesaid. In witness whereof I have hereunto affixed my hand & seal the day & year above mentioned.
Witness present Conrad Doll (seal)
John Coons
Frederick Frail
Richard Butner
State of Maryland Frederick County to wit,
On the fifth day of November 1804, personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for said county Conrad Doll & acknowledged the within instrument of writing to be his act & deed for the use intent, purposes & constructions therein and according to the true intent & meaning thereof.
Before Henry Kuhn
State of Maryland, Frederick County, to wit,
I do hereby certify that Henry Kuhn gleeman before whom the foregoing acknowledgement appears to have been made and who hath thereunto subscribed his name was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace for & in the county aforesaid duly commissioned & sworn.
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand & affixed the seal of Frederick County court this 5th day of November 1804.
Wm. Ritchie Clk of Fred’k Cty Court
At a court continued and held for Wythe County, the 12th day of December 1804.
This deed of emancipation from Conrad Doll to William Roweson being produced in court & proved by the certificate thereon was ordered to be recorded.
Attest, Rob’t Crockett, Clk.
This is to certify to whom these may come that William Roweson a negro man now living in Wythe County, Virginia has been a slave to me the subscriber from the ninth year of his age until he arrived nearly to the age of thirty six years and served me faithfully as a slave for said time and for sundry other good causes and terms done to me I set him free and give him his discharge June 27th 1800 which was immediately recorded in Frederick County records said discharge alluded to Kentucky as he meant to go immediately to Kentucky with Gen’l Matthews and was disappointed and stayed back in Wythe County where he now resides. And as said Roweson has called on me for another discharge (and the former one has either been lost or destroyed by ill designed persons in order to make a slave of him again as he has been put to trouble sundry times). Therefore I have thought reasonable to give this & caused the county seal to be affixed to the same & acknowledged the within instrument of writing before a magistrate of said county provided he stays or continues in Wythe County, Virginia or goes of further in any new state or states that are laid of or shall he laid of hereafter where lands provisions are cheap so as he can the sooner & quicker make something for himself as I have learned said negro whilst with me the house carpenters & [?joinces?] himself. I am no ways doubtful but what he can make a good decent living in Wythe or in any other new state or states aforesaid. In witness whereof I have hereunto affixed my hand & seal the day & year above mentioned.
Witness present Conrad Doll (seal)
John Coons
Frederick Frail
Richard Butner
State of Maryland Frederick County to wit,
On the fifth day of November 1804, personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for said county Conrad Doll & acknowledged the within instrument of writing to be his act & deed for the use intent, purposes & constructions therein and according to the true intent & meaning thereof.
Before Henry Kuhn
State of Maryland, Frederick County, to wit,
I do hereby certify that Henry Kuhn gleeman before whom the foregoing acknowledgement appears to have been made and who hath thereunto subscribed his name was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace for & in the county aforesaid duly commissioned & sworn.
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand & affixed the seal of Frederick County court this 5th day of November 1804.
Wm. Ritchie Clk of Fred’k Cty Court
At a court continued and held for Wythe County, the 12th day of December 1804.
This deed of emancipation from Conrad Doll to William Roweson being produced in court & proved by the certificate thereon was ordered to be recorded.
Attest, Rob’t Crockett, Clk.
Record Location
DB 4:171
Document Type
Deed
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Collection
Citation
“1804 - Doll to William Roweson - Wythe Co, VA,” Manumission Project, accessed November 13, 2025, https://manumissionproject.omeka.net/items/show/1974.