1825 - Wesson to Hannah - Surry Co, VA

1825 - Wesson to Hannah - Surry Co, VA

04/10/1825

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To all to whom these presents shall come, know ye that I Elvire Wesson of the County of Surry in the State of Virginia having under my care and control by virtue of the last will and testament of my deceased husband John Wesson, late of said county, a negro woman named Hannah aged thirty nine years the fourth day of February last passed which negro woman Hannah with sundry other negroes the said John Wesson devised to me the use of during my life, after my death the said negroes to be free with the privilege to emancipate and set free any of said negroes at any time I should think proper to do so. By virtue of the authority so give me, I the said Elvire Wesson do by these presents liberate, set free and forever discharge the said negro woman Hannah from all manner of servitude for or to me, or any person who may claim under me, either to her person or to any estate she may hereafter acquire upon this condition, only that the said Hannah shall not at any time hereafter call on me or claim from me maintenance from the date hereof. In witness whereof I the said Elvire Wesson have hereunto set my hand and seal the tenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty five.
Signed, sealed and Elvire Wesson (seal)
acknowledged in the
presence of
Walter S. Booth
William H.M. Blunt

Surry County Clerk’s Office to wit
I John Faulcon Clerk of the Court of said County do hereby certify that the within named Elvire Wesson party to the within deed of manumission to negro woman Hannah this day personally appeared before me and acknowledged the same to be her act and deed. Given under my hand as Clerk aforesaid the 10th April 1825.
Examined and deed deliv’d
Elvire Wesson 12th April 1822

DB 7:260

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