1837 - Nelson to Anthony & Susan - Clarke Co, VA
Manumission Item Data Item Type Metadata
Date
08/28/1837
Manumitter
Manumitted
Number of Persons
2
Text of Freedom Document
Philip Nelson to negroes Anthony & Susan
Deed of Emancipation
Know all men by these presents that I Philip Nelson of Long Branch Clarke County Virginia have forever emancipated & set free and do hereby emancipate & set free negroes Anthony Anderson and Susan his wife for & in considerations of the entire release and discharge by and from negroes Thomas Cook and Catharine his wife of a certain provision contained in the last will & testament of my late sister in law Frances H. Burwell and every part thereof including such as may be now due & in paid thereon; as also such as may hereafter accrues thereon, it being the true intent of all the parties concerned in said provision that the same shall be utterly extinguished and discharged now & forever.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this twenty eighth day of August 1837.
Signed, sealed &c in Philip Nelson (seal)
our presence
T.F. Nelson
R.K. Meade
Clarke County Set
At a court held for the county aforesaid on Monday the 28th day of August 1837. This deed of emancipation to negroes Anthony Anderson & Susan his wife was acknowledged in open court by Philip Nelson & ordered to be recorded.
Teste, John Hay Clerk of the Court
of Clarke County
Deed of Emancipation
Know all men by these presents that I Philip Nelson of Long Branch Clarke County Virginia have forever emancipated & set free and do hereby emancipate & set free negroes Anthony Anderson and Susan his wife for & in considerations of the entire release and discharge by and from negroes Thomas Cook and Catharine his wife of a certain provision contained in the last will & testament of my late sister in law Frances H. Burwell and every part thereof including such as may be now due & in paid thereon; as also such as may hereafter accrues thereon, it being the true intent of all the parties concerned in said provision that the same shall be utterly extinguished and discharged now & forever.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this twenty eighth day of August 1837.
Signed, sealed &c in Philip Nelson (seal)
our presence
T.F. Nelson
R.K. Meade
Clarke County Set
At a court held for the county aforesaid on Monday the 28th day of August 1837. This deed of emancipation to negroes Anthony Anderson & Susan his wife was acknowledged in open court by Philip Nelson & ordered to be recorded.
Teste, John Hay Clerk of the Court
of Clarke County
Record Location
DB A:140
Document Type
Deed
Files
Collection
Citation
“1837 - Nelson to Anthony & Susan - Clarke Co, VA,” Manumission Project, accessed February 9, 2026, https://manumissionproject.omeka.net/items/show/2238.