1817 - Lacy to Fannie Lacy - Lynchburg, VA
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Title
1817 - Lacy to Fannie Lacy - Lynchburg, VA
Source
Date
Type
Deed
Manumission Item Data Item Type Metadata
Date
01/09/1817
Manumitter
Manumitted
Number of Persons
~
Text of Freedom Document
Deed book C, page 268
Know all men by these presents then I Charles Lacy (a coloured man of the county of Campbell)
and within the bounds of the corporation of Lynchburg for diverse causes and considerations me
thereto moving but more particularly for the discreet and prudent conduct of Fanny Lacy my
wife who I sometime ago I go purchased of William Byrd of Lynchburg these are therefore to
testify that are Charles Lacy for the reason before do fully and freely emancipate and set free the
said Fanny agreeable to an act of afrembly in that case made of provided in witnesses whereof
there of I have hereto set my hand and seal to this third day of October in the year of our lord
Christ 1816
X his mark
Charles Lacy seal
Test
Wm P. Martin
Know all men by these presents then I Charles Lacy (a coloured man of the county of Campbell)
and within the bounds of the corporation of Lynchburg for diverse causes and considerations me
thereto moving but more particularly for the discreet and prudent conduct of Fanny Lacy my
wife who I sometime ago I go purchased of William Byrd of Lynchburg these are therefore to
testify that are Charles Lacy for the reason before do fully and freely emancipate and set free the
said Fanny agreeable to an act of afrembly in that case made of provided in witnesses whereof
there of I have hereto set my hand and seal to this third day of October in the year of our lord
Christ 1816
X his mark
Charles Lacy seal
Test
Wm P. Martin
Record Location
DB C:268
Notes
freeing his wife - same woman as 1814 deed from William Burd
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Collection
Citation
“1817 - Lacy to Fannie Lacy - Lynchburg, VA,” Manumission Project, accessed August 16, 2026, https://manumissionproject.omeka.net/items/show/704.