1791 - Atkinson to Teller - Sussex Co, VA

1791 - Atkinson to Teller - Sussex Co, VA

02/03/1791

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I Robert Atkinson of Sussex County Virginia being fully persuaded that freedom is the natural right of all mankind and that it is my duty to do unto others as I would desire to be done by in the like situation and having under my care a negro woman called Teller aged nineteen years, I hereby emancipate and set free the said Teller free and do for myself, my heirs, Executors and Administrators relinquish all my right, title, interest and claim or pretensions of claim whatsoever either to her person or to any estate she may hereafter acquire, the above said negro and her posterity to enjoy their full freedom without any interruption from me or from any person claiming for, by, from, or under me. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this eight day of the 1st month one thousand seven hundred and ninety one.
Sealed & delivered in presence of Robert Atkinson (seal)
of Joshua Bailey
Harbert Sledge

At a court held for Sussex County the 3rd day of February 1791. This deed of emancipation was acknowledged by Robert Atkinson to be his act & deed & ordered to be recorded.
Teste, Michael Bailey G.

DB G:544

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