1787 - Simpkins to Quil - Northampton Co, VA

1787 - Simpkins to Quil - Northampton Co, VA

02/13/1787

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Know all men by these presents that I Coventon Simpkins of the County of Northampton & State of Virginia for good causes & considerations me hereunto moving & by virtue of an act of the General Assembly of Virginia passed in the year of our Lord 1782 entitled “an act to authorize the manumission of slaves” do hereby emancipate & set absolutely free the following negro slaves to wit: Quil & Ben, great Tamar, little Tamar & Sarah to be free and at their own liberty on the first day of January 1787. Negro Joe to be free on the first day of January 1789 and negroes Rachael, Dilly, James, Milly & Mary to be free and at liberty as they severally arrive at the age of twenty one and eighteen as by said act of assembly is directed. And I do hereby warrant & defend the freedom of the said negroes against myself, my heirs, executors & administrators as well as against all persons whatsoever claiming title to the same by or from me under the penal sum of one hundred pounds current money to be recovered by each of the said negroes in case of any attempt to deprive them of their liberty by us so as above granted. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this 10th day of October Anno Domini 1786.
Signed & sealed in presence of Coventon Simpkins (seal)
At a court held for Northampton County the 13th day of February 1787. This deed of emancipation was acknowledged by Coventon Simpkins party thereto to be his act & deed & ordered to be recorded.
Test
William Stith CNC
Exd

DC 22:117

Deed

Cites 1782 law