1839 - Jennings to Kitty - Elizabeth City Co, VA

1839 - Jennings to Kitty - Elizabeth City Co, VA

09/28/1839

1

Know all men by these presents that I William Jennings of the town of Hampton and County of Elizabeth City have manumitted, emancipated and set free, and by these presents do manumit, emancipate and set free a negro woman slave named Kitty, and sometimes called Kitty Robinson, who was sold to me by Andrew McClain formerly of Old Point Comfort; and I hereby declare her the said Kitty to be entirely liberated from slavery, and entitled to all the rights and privileges of a free person with which it is in my power to vest her; she the said Kitty hereby emancipated is a woman of light complexion about five feet five inches high and about forty six years old. In testimony whereof I have this 28th day of September 1839 set my hand and affixed my seal to these presents.
Wm. Jennings (seal)
In Elizabeth City County Clerk’s Office 28 Sept 1839
This deed of emancipation was acknowledged by Wm. Jennings party thereto, and admitted to record.
Teste,
W.S. Armistead Clk

Re-recorded October 14th 1884
[illegible] Bainbridge D.C.

DB H:201

Deed