1788 - Savage to Comfort Toby - Northampton Co, VA

1788 - Savage to Comfort Toby - Northampton Co, VA

07/08/1788

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Know all men by these presents that I John Savage of the County of Northampton and State of Virginia for good cause and consideration me hereunto moving, and 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 and set absolutely free the following negro slave Comfort, to whom I give the name of Comfort Toby, to free at her own on the first day of January 1789, as by said Act of Assembly directed; and I do hereby warrant and defend the freedom of said negro against myself, my heirs, executors, and administrators under the penal sum of one hundred pounds current money of Virginia, to be recovered by said negro in case of any attempt to deprive her of her liberty by us as above granted. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this eighth day of July Anno Domini 1788.
Signed and sealed John Savage (seal)
in presence of

At a court held for Northampton County the 8th day of July 1788. This deed of emancipation was acknowledged by John Savage (OC) party thereto to be his act and deed and ordered to be recorded.
Exam’d Test, Wm Stith C.N.C.

DC 22:244

Deed