1808 - Spratt to Maria Muse - Middlesex Co, VA
Manumission Item Data Item Type Metadata
Date
07/19/1808
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, manumit, and forever liberate Maria alias Maria Muse, a mulatto girl, she being one of the children of Beckey, named in the law will of Doct’r George D Spratt, and we do hereby declare the said Maria forever free and emancipated. In witness whereof we have hereto set our hands and seals at Urbanna the 19th day of July Anno Domini 1808.
Teste John Minor (seal)
Carter B. Berkeley John Chew (seal)
Tho’s M. Locke
George D Nicolson
At a court held for the County of Middlesex County at the courthouse in Urbanna on Monday the 19th day of July 1808. This deed of emancipation from John Minor and John Chew to Maria alias Maria Muse, was in open court proved to be the act and deed of the said exors and trustees by the oaths of Carter B. Berkeley and Thomas M Locke, two of the witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded.
Teste,
Th. Muse CMC
Teste John Minor (seal)
Carter B. Berkeley John Chew (seal)
Tho’s M. Locke
George D Nicolson
At a court held for the County of Middlesex County at the courthouse in Urbanna on Monday the 19th day of July 1808. This deed of emancipation from John Minor and John Chew to Maria alias Maria Muse, was in open court proved to be the act and deed of the said exors and trustees by the oaths of Carter B. Berkeley and Thomas M Locke, two of the witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded.
Teste,
Th. Muse CMC
Record Location
DB 12:345
Document Type
Deed
Files
Collection
Citation
“1808 - Spratt to Maria Muse - Middlesex Co, VA,” Manumission Project, accessed June 15, 2026, https://manumissionproject.omeka.net/items/show/2644.