1808 - Spratt exors to Charlotte Robinson - 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 late Doctor George D. Spratt, we the subscribers, executors, and trustees under the said will, do hereby emancipate, manumit and forever liberate Charlotte otherwise alias Charlotte Robinson, a mulatto woman late a slave of the said Doctor George D. Spratt, and we do hereby forever declare the said Charlotte and her future increase forever free and emancipated. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 19th day of July 1808.
Teste, John Minor (seal)
Carter B. Berkeley Jn. Chew (seal)
Tho’s 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 to be the act and deed of the said executors and trustees by the oaths of Carter B. Berkeley & Thomas M. Locke two of the witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded.
Teste,
Th. Muse CMC
Teste, John Minor (seal)
Carter B. Berkeley Jn. Chew (seal)
Tho’s 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 to be the act and deed of the said executors and trustees by the oaths of Carter B. Berkeley & Thomas M. Locke two of the witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded.
Teste,
Th. Muse CMC
Record Location
DB 12:544
Document Type
Deed
Notes
named in Will of George Spratt WB 2:237
Files
Collection
Citation
“1808 - Spratt exors to Charlotte Robinson - Middlesex Co, VA,” Manumission Project, accessed June 11, 2026, https://manumissionproject.omeka.net/items/show/2642.