COURT: Emancipation John Ullery to Negro Betty, 1803, 1804, Huntingdon County, PA

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Emancipation John Ullery to Negro Betty
Miscellaneous Deed Book I-1 page p. 536
Recorder of Deeds  Huntingdon County Pennsylvania

Be it remembered that I john Ulery of the Township of Frankstown in the 
county of Huntingdon and state of Pennsylvania, miller, being of sound 
memory and judgment calling to mind the uncertainty of my life do 
hereby order and direct that it is my wish and desire that my Negro 
woman Betty shall be free at my death to all intents and purposes and 
that my heirs executors or administrators are to have to no claim to 
the said Betty as aney [sic] part of 
my personal estate In testimony hereof I have hereunto set my hand and 
seal the seventeenth day of January in the years of our Lord one 
thousand eight hundred and three.

     S/John Ullery
    (in German)

Witness present 
James Somerville
John Gripe (in German)

Huntingdon County on the 8th May 1804 before me one of the Justices of 
the Peace in and for the county aforesaid personally came John Gripe 
who being duly affirmed did depose and say that he was personally 
present and did hear and see John Ullery sign seal and and deliver the 
above instrument of writing as his act and deed and that he subscribed 
his name thereto as a witness of such signing and that he saw James 
Sommerville  and John Ulery also sign that same as witness  and that 
the name John Gripe subscribed thereto as a witness is in this 
deponents own proper hand writing and further saith not.  
S/ John Gripe

Sworn, subscribed before me
John Holliday
A true copy compared with the original 8th May 1804