1818 - Robinson to Jacob Thomas - Lynchburg, VA

Dublin Core

Title

1818 - Robinson to Jacob Thomas - Lynchburg, VA

Date

Type

Deed

Manumission Item Data Item Type Metadata

Location

Date

03/05/1818

Manumitter

Manumitted

Number of Persons

1

Text of Freedom Document

Deed book D, page 313
Know all men by these presents that I John Robinson of the corporation of Lynchburg and State
of Virginia being desirous of rewarding in some substantial manner of a black man by the name
Jacob Thomas who was raised by Bartlett Bennett of Orange County Virginia and was purchased
by me on the first day of October 1808 from one Thomas Jones of Campbell County this the said
Jacob’s father being a free man of the same name, for his great and faithful service rendered me,
by him as my slave for more than nine years and for his honesty industry and extraordinary merit
now for any consideration of the sum of nine hundred dollars to me in hand paid by the said
Jacob Thomas at or before the sealing and delivery of these presents the receipt whereof his
thereby acknowledged, I the said John Robinson have relinquished and renounce all claim which
I now have or hereafter be supposed to have to the service of him the said Jacob Thomas and do
by these presents emancipate him and bestow upon him all the rights which appertain to a free
person of color in the said Commonwealth of Virginia.
And I the said John Robinson do here by guarantee to the said Jacob Thomas a perfect title to his
freedom according to the law of the Commonwealth of Virginia aforesaid uninterrupted by the
claim of any and all persons whatsoever- In witness whereof I have hereunto to set my hand affixed
my seal this 5th day of March in the year of our lord 1818 sealed and delivered before
John Robinson seal

Record Location

DB D:313

Files

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Citation

“1818 - Robinson to Jacob Thomas - Lynchburg, VA,” Manumission Project, accessed February 6, 2025, https://manumissionproject.omeka.net/items/show/707.