1830 - Wood to Anny - Scott Co, VA

1830 - Wood to Anny - Scott Co, VA

05/11/1830

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Know all men by these presents that I, Jonathan Wood Senr. of the County of Scott and State of Virginia, Have Manumitted, emancipated and set free, a Negro Woman Slave named Anny, who was some years since sold out of my fathers estate and I became the purchaser of said Anny, and I hereby declare the said Anny to be entirely liberated from slavery and entitled to all the rights and privileges of a free person with which it is my power to vest her. She the said Anny hereby emancipated is a Woman of a light complection[sic], or Yello, about five feet four & ½ inches high and is about sixty years old. In testimony whereof I have set my hand and seal this 11th day of May 1830.
Johnathan Wood Senr. {seal}
Virginia
At a Court continued and held for Scott County the 10th day of May 1830.
This deed subscribed by Jonathan Wood Senr. emancipating his Negro slave Anny, was acknowledged in court by the said Wood to be his act and deed, and ordered to be recorded.
John S. Martin D,C

DB 3:585

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