1839 - Charity to Jeffrey - Surry Co, VA

1839 - Charity to Jeffrey - Surry Co, VA

08/24/1839

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To all whom these presents shall come, Greeting. Know ye that I Mason Charity of the County of Surry for divers good causes and considerations, me thereunto moving, but more especially for the natural affection which I have and bear to my slave Jeffery, sometimes called Jeffery Hart, purchased of Henry Hart, hath emancipated and set free, and by these presents doth emancipate and set free the said slave Jeffery sometimes called Jeffery Hart, in as full complete and ample a manner as if he had been born free. And I do moreover for myself, my heirs, executors and administrators exonerate and discharge the said Jeffery from all and every claim from personal services from this day until the termination of his natural life. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal in the County aforesaid this 24th day of August in the year of Christ one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine.
Signed, sealed and delivered Mason Charity (seal)
in the presence of
Jn Deck

Surry County to wit
We James D. Edwards and Edwin White, Justices of the Peace for the County aforesaid in the State of Virginia do hereby certify that Mason Charity, a party to a certain deed, bearing date on the 24th August 1839, and hereunto annexed personally, appeared before us in our county aforesaid and acknowledged the same to be his act and deed, and desire us to certify the same acknowledgment to the Clerk of the County Court of Surry in order that the same may be recorded. Guven under our hands and seals this 24th day of August 1839.
James D. Edwards JP (seal)
Edwin White JP (seal)

In Surry County Court Clerk’s Office 26th August 1839
This deed of emancipation from Mason Charity to Jeffery Hart was this day received in this office and with the certificate therein written of the acknowledgment thereof before two Justices of the Peace admitted to record.
Exam’d & delivered self 5th Oct ’39 Wm P. Underwood D.C.

DB 11:45

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