RICHMOND, VA - COURT - Samuel Pleasants Jr, Emancipation of slave Ben, 19 Apr 1806
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I Samuel Pleasants Jr of the City of Richmond being fully persuaded that
freedom is the natural right of all mankind and that it is my duty to do to
others as I would desire to be done by in the like siutation and having under
my care a mulatto boy named Ben, do hereby emancipate and set free the said
mulatto boy Ben to take place when he said boy shall arrive to manhood, vizt:
on the first day of October one thousand eight hundred and eleven.  And I do
for myself and my heirs, Executors and Administrators relinquish all my right,
title, interest, claim or pretentions of claim whatever as a slave to the said
Ben after he shall attain to the age of freedom as aforesaid.

IN WITNESS whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 19th day of April
one thousand eight hundred and six.

                                                   Samuel Pleasants Jr (seal)
Witnesses:
Philip Woodson
John M. Netherland

                   At a Monthly Court of (Hustings) Continued by Adjournment  
                     & Held for the City of Richmond at the Courthouse on
                               Tuesday the 10th day of June 1806

This Deed of Emancipation was proved by the oaths of Philip Woodson and John
M. Netherland, witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded.
   
                                                 Teste:
                                                 Adam Craig, CC
Examined.

Source: Library of Virginia,
Will Book 4, 1804-1806
Hustings Deeds
Reel 3, page 457


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