1849 - Bent to Charles - Winchester, VA
Manumission Item Data Item Type Metadata
Date
02/03/1849
Manumitter
Manumitted
Number of Persons
1
Text of Freedom Document
Know all men by these presents that I Lemuel Bent for a good cause and valuable consideration have emancipated and set free and by these presents do emancipate and set free my servant Charles or Charley Morris, hereby granting to said Charles a full and perfect right to his freedom from this time forth quit and discharged from all claims of service on my past.
In testimony of which I have hereto set my hand and seal this 1 day of February 1849.
Witness Lem’l Bent (seal)
N Bent
Wm L Bent
At a court held for the Corporation of Winchester the 3 day of February 1849
This deed of emancipation was proved by the oaths of Nathaniel Bent and William L Bent witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded.
By the Court
Wm L Bent CC
In testimony of which I have hereto set my hand and seal this 1 day of February 1849.
Witness Lem’l Bent (seal)
N Bent
Wm L Bent
At a court held for the Corporation of Winchester the 3 day of February 1849
This deed of emancipation was proved by the oaths of Nathaniel Bent and William L Bent witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded.
By the Court
Wm L Bent CC
Record Location
DB 9:235
Document Type
Deed
Files
Collection
Citation
“1849 - Bent to Charles - Winchester, VA,” Manumission Project, accessed January 14, 2026, https://manumissionproject.omeka.net/items/show/2121.