1839 - Brown to Lewis Brown - Bath Co, VA

1839 - Brown to Lewis Brown - Bath Co, VA

09/25/1839

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Know all men by these presents that I Samuel Brown of the County of Bath in the State of Virginia have manumitted, emancipated and set free and by these presents do manumit, emancipate and set free a negro man slave named Lewis and sometimes called Lewis Brown, and I hereby declare him the said Lewis to be entirely liberated from slavery, and entitled to all the rights and privileges of a free person with which it is in my power to vest him. He the said Lewis sometimes called Lewis Brown hereby emancipated is a man of dark complexion about five feet ten or eleven inches high and will be twenty two years old about the first of January recent. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 25th day of September 1839.
Samuel Brown (seal)

Bath County Court Clerk’s Office September 25th 1839
This deed of emancipation from Samuel Brown to Lewis sometimes called Lewis Brown was presented to me in my office and acknowledged by the said Samuel Brown to be his act and deed and was admitted to record.
Teste, S.N. Porter Clk

WB 4:476

Deed