1798 - Day to Nanny - Spotsylvania Co, VA
Manumission Item Data Item Type Metadata
Date
02/06/1798
Manumitter
Manumitted
Number of Persons
1
Text of Freedom Document
Know all men by these presents that I Benjamin Day of Fredericksburg in Spotsylvania County for and in consideration of the past good conduct of Nanny, my negro woman slave, do by these presents liberate, emancipate, and set free, and do hereby discharge her the said Nanny from all manner of slavery and servitude and declare her to be in as perfect a state of freedom and entitled to all the privileges and advantages arising therefrom as she can legally enjoy. In testimony whereof I the said Benjamin Day have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this fifth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety seven.
Signed, sealed and delivered Benj. Day (seal)
in the presence of
Sta Critchfield
Daniel Grinnan Jr.
We the subscribers, inhabitants of Williamsburg, do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Nanny, a negro woman slave, belonging to Benjamin Day of Fredsburg [sic], that she is an industrious, health woman whose age appears to be between forty and fifty years, and from a desire in her master to liberate her, for her past good conduct, we have at his request given this certificate to the Court of Spotsylvania County, where the law requires the deed shall be executed. Given under our hands at Williamsburg this sixth of September 1797.
C. Griffin Judge
J. McGath Surgeon
Will’m Finner
Will Russell Clk Dist. Ct.
At a court held for Spotsylvania County February the 6th 1798
This deed of emancipation from Benjamin Day to his slave Nanny was proved by the oaths of the two witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded.
Teste
Signed, sealed and delivered Benj. Day (seal)
in the presence of
Sta Critchfield
Daniel Grinnan Jr.
We the subscribers, inhabitants of Williamsburg, do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Nanny, a negro woman slave, belonging to Benjamin Day of Fredsburg [sic], that she is an industrious, health woman whose age appears to be between forty and fifty years, and from a desire in her master to liberate her, for her past good conduct, we have at his request given this certificate to the Court of Spotsylvania County, where the law requires the deed shall be executed. Given under our hands at Williamsburg this sixth of September 1797.
C. Griffin Judge
J. McGath Surgeon
Will’m Finner
Will Russell Clk Dist. Ct.
At a court held for Spotsylvania County February the 6th 1798
This deed of emancipation from Benjamin Day to his slave Nanny was proved by the oaths of the two witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded.
Teste
Record Location
DB P:50
Document Type
Deed
Files
Collection
Citation
“1798 - Day to Nanny - Spotsylvania Co, VA,” Manumission Project, accessed January 16, 2026, https://manumissionproject.omeka.net/items/show/2378.