1808 - Spratt to Robin Reeves - Middlesex Co, VA

1808 - Spratt to Robin Reeves - 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 Robin alias Robin Reeves, a negro man, late the slave of the said Doct’r George D Spratt, and we do hereby declare the said Robin forever free and emancipated. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 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 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 oaths of Carter B. Berkeley and Thomas M. Locke, two of the witnesses thereto, to be the act and deed of the said John Minor and Jno. Chew and by the court ordered to be recorded.
Teste, Tho. Muse CMC

DB 12:543

Deed