1808 - Spratt to Reeves Murray - Middlesex Co, VA

1808 - Spratt to Reeves Murray - Middlesex Co, VA

07/25/1808

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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 Reeves, alias Reeves Murray, a young negro man of a light color, he being one of the children of Beckey named in said will of Doctor George D Spratt, and we do hereby declare the said Reeves forever free and emancipated. In witness whereof we have hereto set our hands and seals at Urbanna this 19th day of July 1808.
Teste John Minor (seal)
Carter B. Berkeley John 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 executors and trustees therein named by the oaths of Carter B. Berkeley and Thomas Locke, two of the witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded.
Teste,
Th. Muse CMC

DB 12:544

Deed