1808 - Spratt exors to Beckey Murray - Middlesex Co, VA
Manumission Item Data Item Type Metadata
Date
07/25/1808
Manumitter
Manumitted
Number of Persons
1
Text of Freedom Document
By virtue of power vested in us by the will of the late Doctor George D. Spratt, we the subscribers, executors and trustees under the said will do hereby emancipate and manumit Beckey otherwise called Beckey Murray, a woman of light color, and we do hereby declare the said Beckey forever free and emancipated. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals at Urbanna the 19th day of July Anno Domini 1808.
Teste John Minor (seal)
Carter B. Berkeley Jn. Chew (seal)
Tho. M. Locke
George D. Nicolson
At a court held for Middlesex County at the courthouse in Urbanna on Monday the 25th day of July 1808. This deed of emancipation was in open court proved by the act and deed of said executors and trustees by the oaths of Carter B. Berkeley and Thomas M. Locke two of the witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded.
Teste,
Tho. Muse C.M.C.
Teste John Minor (seal)
Carter B. Berkeley Jn. Chew (seal)
Tho. M. Locke
George D. Nicolson
At a court held for Middlesex County at the courthouse in Urbanna on Monday the 25th day of July 1808. This deed of emancipation was in open court proved by the act and deed of said executors and trustees by the oaths of Carter B. Berkeley and Thomas M. Locke two of the witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded.
Teste,
Tho. Muse C.M.C.
Record Location
DB 12:543
Document Type
Deed
Notes
named in Will of George Spratt WB 2:237
Files
Collection
Citation
“1808 - Spratt exors to Beckey Murray - Middlesex Co, VA,” Manumission Project, accessed June 15, 2026, https://manumissionproject.omeka.net/items/show/2641.