1790 - Mitchell to Abraham, et al. - Campbell Co, VA
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1790 - Mitchell to Abraham, et al. - Campbell Co, VA
Source
Date
Manumission Item Data Item Type Metadata
Date
07/01/1790
Manumitter
Manumitted
Number of Persons
13
Text of Freedom Document
Deed Book 2, Pg 487
To all to whom these presents may come be it known that by an act of the General Assembly of
Virginia passed in May 1782 entitled An Act to Authorize the Manumission of Slaves, those
persons who are disposed to emancipate their slaves are hereby empowered so to do. And
whereas I Samuel Mitchell of Campbell County from mature deliberate consideration and from
the conviction of my own mind being fully persuaded that freedom is the natural right of all
mankind and that no law either moral or divine has given me a right to or property in the person
of my fellow creatures and having under my care a man woman and children named Abraham,
Lucy, Judy, Sinthia, Delphia, Charlotte, Milley, Daphney, Peter, George, Benjamin, Dilie and
Macy That I do for myself my heirs executors and administrators etc, relinquish all my right title
and claims or pretensions of claim whatsoever to their persons or to any estate they may
hereafter acquire only desiring the guardian care of such as under the age of twenty one until
they arrive at that age In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this thirteenth
day of June in the year of our Lord 1790 and the thirteenth of this Commonwealth.
Saml. Mitchell seal
Signed Sealed and Acknowledged
In the presence of
Joseph Anthony
Wm. Davis
At a Court held for Campbell County July 1st 1790
The within manumissions were proved by the solemn affirmation of Joseph Anthony and Wm.
Davis witnessing thereto subscribed and ordered to be recorded
Teste
Ro. Alexander C,C,C,
To all to whom these presents may come be it known that by an act of the General Assembly of
Virginia passed in May 1782 entitled An Act to Authorize the Manumission of Slaves, those
persons who are disposed to emancipate their slaves are hereby empowered so to do. And
whereas I Samuel Mitchell of Campbell County from mature deliberate consideration and from
the conviction of my own mind being fully persuaded that freedom is the natural right of all
mankind and that no law either moral or divine has given me a right to or property in the person
of my fellow creatures and having under my care a man woman and children named Abraham,
Lucy, Judy, Sinthia, Delphia, Charlotte, Milley, Daphney, Peter, George, Benjamin, Dilie and
Macy That I do for myself my heirs executors and administrators etc, relinquish all my right title
and claims or pretensions of claim whatsoever to their persons or to any estate they may
hereafter acquire only desiring the guardian care of such as under the age of twenty one until
they arrive at that age In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this thirteenth
day of June in the year of our Lord 1790 and the thirteenth of this Commonwealth.
Saml. Mitchell seal
Signed Sealed and Acknowledged
In the presence of
Joseph Anthony
Wm. Davis
At a Court held for Campbell County July 1st 1790
The within manumissions were proved by the solemn affirmation of Joseph Anthony and Wm.
Davis witnessing thereto subscribed and ordered to be recorded
Teste
Ro. Alexander C,C,C,
Natural Rights
Yes
Christian
Yes
Golden Rule
Yes
Record Location
B 2:487
Document Type
Deed
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Collection
Citation
“1790 - Mitchell to Abraham, et al. - Campbell Co, VA,” Manumission Project, accessed January 22, 2025, https://manumissionproject.omeka.net/items/show/652.