1802 - Ross to Nancy Woodford - Middlesex Co, VA

1802 - Ross to Nancy Woodford - Middlesex Co, VA

06/28/1802

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I James Ross of the town of Urbanna in the County of Middlesex and State of Virginia, considering that my mulatto slave Mary Woodford (now deceased) and her daughter Nancy Woodford, were the gift of my two good friends, the late Clement Nicholson and Anne his wife, as by their deed recorded in the court of the county aforesaid will more fully appear. And knowing that the donors had the welfare of the said Mary &c much at heart, and also for divers other causes and considerations me thereunto moving &c, do emancipate and set free all the children of the said Mary, to wit, Nancy Woodford, Frances Woodford, William Woodford, David Woodford, and George Woodford, with all the future increase of them or either of them, agreeably to the Acts of Assembly in that case made and provided. In testimony whereof I the said James Ross have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this fourteenth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and one.
James Ross (seal)
At a court held for Middlesex County at the courthouse in Urbanna on Monday the 28th day of June 1802. This deed of emancipation from James Ross to his slaves Nancy Woodford, Frances Woodford, William Woodford, David Woodford, and George Woodford was acknowledged by the said James Ross to be his act and deed and ordered to be recorded.
Teste, O. Cosby
Truly recorded.
Teste, O. Cosby CMC

DB 12:169

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