1794 - Brokenbrough to Peggy - Westmoreland Co, VA
Manumission Item Data Item Type Metadata
Date
04/30/1794
Manumitter
Manumitted
Number of Persons
1
Text of Freedom Document
Whereas the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia did in the year 1782 enact a law entitled an Act to Authorize the Manumission of Slaves.
Know all men by these presents that I Austin Brockenbrough of the County of Westmoreland do under the said act emancipate and forever set free from slavery one girl named Peggy Justitia. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 29th day of April in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and ninety four.
Witness Austin Brockenbrough (seal)
Law Pope
Humphrey Peake
Joseph Quinlan
At a court continued and held for Westmoreland County the 30th day of April 1794. This deed of manumission was acknowledged by Austin Brockenbrough and ordered to be recorded. The court having examined the within named Peggy Justitia agreeable to the within recited act are of opinion that the said Peggy is above the age of eighteen years and under the age of forty five years that she is of sound mind and body and to be certified accordingly.
Exam’d Teste Ja. Bland CWC
Know all men by these presents that I Austin Brockenbrough of the County of Westmoreland do under the said act emancipate and forever set free from slavery one girl named Peggy Justitia. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 29th day of April in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and ninety four.
Witness Austin Brockenbrough (seal)
Law Pope
Humphrey Peake
Joseph Quinlan
At a court continued and held for Westmoreland County the 30th day of April 1794. This deed of manumission was acknowledged by Austin Brockenbrough and ordered to be recorded. The court having examined the within named Peggy Justitia agreeable to the within recited act are of opinion that the said Peggy is above the age of eighteen years and under the age of forty five years that she is of sound mind and body and to be certified accordingly.
Exam’d Teste Ja. Bland CWC
Record Location
PRIB 7:183
Document Type
Deed
Files
Collection
Citation
“1794 - Brokenbrough to Peggy - Westmoreland Co, VA,” Manumission Project, accessed October 10, 2026, https://manumissionproject.omeka.net/items/show/2929.