1806 - Hill to Job & Stephen - Bath Co, VA
Manumission Item Data Item Type Metadata
Date
04/1806
Manumitter
Manumitted
Number of Persons
2
Text of Freedom Document
Be it known to all whom these presents may concern that according to an Act of Assembly passed May 1797 entitled an act for emancipation of slaves that I Rich’d Hill of Bath County do give up all my right, title or interest to the persons & properties of my negroes (or any property that they may hereafter acquire) as follows: Job to be free at the age of twenty five years, which will be the sixth day of March eighteen hundred & fifteen, Stephen to be free at the same age which will be in the year eighteen hundred & eighteen the tenth day of July. Witness my hand & seal this 21st day of May 1796.
Richard Hill (seal)
Teste,
George Massingbird
Bath County April Court 1806
This deed of emancipation from Richrd Hill to negroes Job and Stephen was acknowledged in court and ordered to be recorded.
Teste,
Charles Cameron Clk
Richard Hill (seal)
Teste,
George Massingbird
Bath County April Court 1806
This deed of emancipation from Richrd Hill to negroes Job and Stephen was acknowledged in court and ordered to be recorded.
Teste,
Charles Cameron Clk
Record Location
WB 1:347
Document Type
Deed
Files
Collection
Citation
“1806 - Hill to Job & Stephen - Bath Co, VA,” Manumission Project, accessed May 15, 2026, https://manumissionproject.omeka.net/items/show/2015.