1854 - Howard to Lucian - Orange Co, VA

1854 - Howard to Lucian - Orange Co, VA

10/07/1854

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Know all men by these presents that I Charles P. Howard of the County of Orange and State of Virginia have manumitted, emancipated and set free, and by these presents do manumit, emancipate and set free a negro man slave named Lucian, a bright mulatto who was born my property in the year 1831 and now in his twenty fourth year. And I hereby declare him the said Lucian to be entirely liberated from slavery and entitled to all the rights & privileges of a free person with which it is in my power to vest him. Given under my hand & seal this seventh day of October 1854.
Charles P. Howard (seal)
Office of the Clerk of the County Court of Orange Oct 7 1854
This deed of emancipation was this day acknowledged before me in the office aforesaid by Charles P. Howard a party thereto and admitted to record.
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DB 43:244

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