Warren-Chatham County NcArchives Court.....Yeargan - Deceased, Samuel 1787
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Source: Colonial Records
Written: 1787

Acts of the North Carolina General Assembly, 1786 - 1787
1786 
Volume 24, Pages 783 - 884

CHAPTER XLVIII.

An Act to emancipate Caesar, formerly a Servant of Samuel Yeargan, Deceased.

Whereas by the last will and testament of Samuel Yeargan, deceased, late of 
the county of Warren, he did desire in his said will that a certain negro man 
of his property, should after the death of his daughter Anne Alston, wife to 
William Alston, of Chatham county, be set free, for and during the full-term 
of fifty-five years: And whereas the said Anne being now dead, it is thought 
just and right the said last will and testament should be adhered to:

I. Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly, That from and after the 
passing of this Act, that the aforesaid Caesar shall and may be at his own 
liberty, for and during the term mentioned in his master's will, upon the same 
footing, and under the same restrictions as other free negroes are intitled to 
in this State, and shall be known and called by the name of Caesar Henry; any 
law to the contrary notwithstanding. (Passed Jan. 6, 1787.)


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