1806 - McCredie to Betsey, et al - Chesterfield Co, VA

Dublin Core

Title

1806 - McCredie to Betsey, et al - Chesterfield Co, VA

Date

Manumission Item Data Item Type Metadata

Date

10/13/1806

Manumitter

Number of Persons

5

Text of Freedom Document

Know all men by these presents that I George McCredie of the town of Manchester, county of Chesterfield, and State of Virginia, for good causes and considerations, me thereunto moving have manumitted, emancipated, and forever set free five slaves, to me at this time belonging, that is to say, Betsey a girl aged fourteen years, and her two sisters, Polley aged about eleven, and Adlie aged about seven years, Suckey a woman aged about twenty two years, and Nancy he daughter, about one year old; and I the said George McCredie do hereby declare the before named Betsey, Polley, Adlie, Suckey, and Nancy, and each of them to be from henceforth and forever free, in as full and effectual a manner as they and each of them had been born free. In testimony of all which I have hereunto set my hand and seal this seventh day of February one thousand eight hundred and six.
George McCredie (seal)
Signed, sealed and delivered
in presence of
Thomas Goode
Richard Hewlett
Richard B. Goode

At a court held for Chesterfield county the 10th day of February 1806, this deed of emancipation was proven by the oath of Richard B. Goode a subscribing witness and continued for further proof.
And at another court held for the said county the 13th day of October following the same was acknowledged by George McCredie party thereto to be his act and deed, and ordered to be recorded.
Teste, Thomas Watkins Clerk

Record Location

DB 17:299

Document Type

Deed

Files

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Citation

“1806 - McCredie to Betsey, et al - Chesterfield Co, VA,” Manumission Project, accessed February 16, 2025, https://manumissionproject.omeka.net/items/show/2085.