1839 - Miller to Rose, Virginia, Richard - Lynchburg, VA
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Title
1839 - Miller to Rose, Virginia, Richard - Lynchburg, VA
Date
Type
Deed
Manumission Item Data Item Type Metadata
Date
10/07/1839
10/07/1839
10/07/1839
Manumitter
Manumitted
Number of Persons
3
Witnesses
Edward Butler, David R. Edley
Text of Freedom Document
Know all men by these presents, that I, Samuel Miller of the Town of Lynchburg, and State of Virginia, have
liberated, released, emancipated, and set free, and by these presents do hereby fully liberate, release,
emancipate, and set free. My Negro woman slave named Rose, aged about twenty seven years, and her two
children, one a girl by the name of Virginia, aged about ten years, and the other a boy by the name of Richard,
about seven years of age; which said slaves, with the future increase of the females, I do hereby declare to be
free, and intirely released, and emancipated from all kind of servitude or slavery. And I do further by these
presents, covenant and bind my self my heirs &c. To warrant and forever defend the right of freedom hereby
given the slaves aforesaid, free from the existing claim, or claims of all persons whomsoever. In testimony
whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 5th day of October in the year of Our Lord, One
Thousand - Eight Hundred and Thirty nine.
(1839.)
Samuel Miller seal
Teste, sealed and signed & delivered in presence of
Edward Butler David R. Edley
At a Court of Hustings held for the Caposation of Lynchburg at the Courthouse this 7th day of October 1839
This deed of Emancipation from S Miller to Rose and others was proved by the oaths of Edward Butler and
David R Edley witness thereto and ordered to be recorded
Test James Benagh Clerk - Miller Saml. To Deed of Emancipation. Rose et al.
50 Recorded deed book [C?] page 50.
liberated, released, emancipated, and set free, and by these presents do hereby fully liberate, release,
emancipate, and set free. My Negro woman slave named Rose, aged about twenty seven years, and her two
children, one a girl by the name of Virginia, aged about ten years, and the other a boy by the name of Richard,
about seven years of age; which said slaves, with the future increase of the females, I do hereby declare to be
free, and intirely released, and emancipated from all kind of servitude or slavery. And I do further by these
presents, covenant and bind my self my heirs &c. To warrant and forever defend the right of freedom hereby
given the slaves aforesaid, free from the existing claim, or claims of all persons whomsoever. In testimony
whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 5th day of October in the year of Our Lord, One
Thousand - Eight Hundred and Thirty nine.
(1839.)
Samuel Miller seal
Teste, sealed and signed & delivered in presence of
Edward Butler David R. Edley
At a Court of Hustings held for the Caposation of Lynchburg at the Courthouse this 7th day of October 1839
This deed of Emancipation from S Miller to Rose and others was proved by the oaths of Edward Butler and
David R Edley witness thereto and ordered to be recorded
Test James Benagh Clerk - Miller Saml. To Deed of Emancipation. Rose et al.
50 Recorded deed book [C?] page 50.
Record Location
DB O:50
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Citation
“1839 - Miller to Rose, Virginia, Richard - Lynchburg, VA,” Manumission Project, accessed October 11, 2026, https://manumissionproject.omeka.net/items/show/739.