1840 - Waller to Henry Smith - York Co, VA

1840 - Waller to Henry Smith - York Co, VA

04/19/1841

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Know all men by these presents that I Robert Page Waller Executor of Benjamin Curtis Waller, have according to the requisitions of the said Benjamin Curtis Waller’s will manumitted, emancipated and set free, and by these presents do manumit and set free a negro man named Henry Smith who was set free by the will of Benjamin C. Waller as soon as he should arrive at the age of twenty eight years, and I as executor aforesaid hereby declare him the said Henry Smith 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 him. He the said Henry hereby emancipated is a man of yellow complexion about five feet eight or nine inches. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this the 9th day of November eighteen hundred and forty.
Signed, sealed and delivered Rob’t P. Waller (seal)
in the presence of
Corbin G. Waller
William Waller

At a court held for York County the 19th day of April 1841.
This deed of emancipation was proved by the oaths of Corbin G. Waller and William Waller the witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded.
Teste,
Sam Sheild CYC

DB 13:140

Deed