1782 - Briggs to Jack & Robin - Sussex Co, VA

1782 - Briggs to Jack & Robin - Sussex Co, VA

11/21/1782

2

We Nathaniel Briggs and Lydia Briggs of Sussex County in Virginia being fully persuaded that freedom is the natural right of all mankind and that it is our duty to do unto others as we would desire be done by in the like situation and having under our care two negro men whom we have heretofore held as slaves, one of them named Jack aged about forty three years, and the other named Robbin aged about forty two years. We hereby emancipate and set free the said Jack and Robbin and we do for ourselves our heirs, Executors, and Administrators relinquish all our right, title, interest and claim or pretention of claim whatsoever either to their persons or to any estate they may hereafter acquire without any interruption from us, any person claiming for, by, from or under us.
In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this fourth day of the eighth month in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty two.
Sealed and delivered Nathaniel Briggs (seal)
in the presence of Lydia Briggs (seal)
Mich’l Bailey
William Hamlin

At a court held for Sussex County the 21 day of November 1782
This deed of emancipation was acknowledged by Nathaniel Briggs a party thereto to be his act and deed and ordered to be recorded.
Teste, Jn Cooke Clk Cur

DB F:147

Deed