COURT:  Emancipation - LEE, Isaac; Lexington, Fayette Co., KY; December 1856
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Contributed by: Regina Barry rbarry@delanet.com
Submitted:  March 9, 2001
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Fayette County KY Court Orders Vol 15.  FHL microfilm 1490759

Pg 71. April Court 1857

A deed of emancipation granted from John G. Childs to Isaac Lee. 
Said deed to be recorded; declaring Isaac Lee to be emancipated and set 
free.  Said Isaac Lee and Caroline Lee executed a bond that Isaac Lee, 
upon emancipation, will not become a charge to the Commonwealth; with 
Richard Pindall as surety.
Said Caroline Lee is present in court and consented to said 
emancipation. 

Isaac Lee is 47 years of age, 6 feet 1 inches tall.

The full amount required to be paid by him (Isaac Lee) has been 
paid, and under the belief that he could not be freed under the old 
Constitution of Kentucky, on 8 March 1853 I executed a deed of sale for Isaac 
Lee to his wife Caroline Lee, a free woman; the intent of such a deed to 
cause such an agreement to be executed. Now it appears that under the new 
Constitution that he can be emancipated; I hereby declare Isaac Lee to be 
emancipated.
               J. G. Childs



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