1798-Cesar

Dublin Core

Title

1798-Cesar

Date

Type

Deed

Manumission Item Data Item Type Metadata

Location

Manumitter

Third Manumitter

Wisemiller

Manumitted

Executor

Charles Love

Text of Freedom Document

Know all men by these presents that we Korn & Wisemiller of Alexandria do hereby declare & pronounce a
negro boy named Cesar which we purchased of Charles Love free on the expiration of twenty one years from
this 1st day of September 179five- Witness an hand & seal
witness Charles Love
Horn & Wisemiller seal
At a court of Hustings held for the Town of Alexandria the 7th day of May 1798. This deed of Emancipation
from Korn and Wisemiller to Negro Cesar, was proved by the oath of Charles Love and ordered to be
recorded.
Teste
L Deneale ck
Korn & Wisemiller to Negro Casar
deed of emancipation
May Court 1798
no. 32
Recdd
L.K. Folio 345
Ecd

Record Location

Library of VA - VIRGINIA UNTOLD

Notes

Last names only? To be free 21 years later?

Files

1798_Cesar_Original_Arlington-0.jpg
1798_Cesar_Original_Arlington-1.jpg

Citation

“1798-Cesar,” Manumission Project, accessed January 17, 2025, https://manumissionproject.omeka.net/items/show/867.