RICHMOND, VA - COURT - Samuel Pleasants, Emancipation of slave Manuel, 3 Jan 1806
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I Samuel Pleasants in of the City of Richmond being fully persuaded that
freedom is the natural right of mankind and that it is my duty to do unto
others as I would desire to be done by in the like situation and being
possessed of a negro man slave named Manuel about thirty eight years old, I
hereby emancipate and declare him the said Manuel free to take place on the
25th day of December eighteen hundred and twelve, and I do for myself my heirs
Executors and Administrators relinquish all my right title and claim or
pretence of claim whatever as a slave to the person or to any estate the said
Manuel may acquire after the said 25th of December 1812 when he is to enjoy
the full benefit of freedom in as full and ample a manner as if he had been
born free, without any interruption from me or any person or persons claiming
for by from or under me.

IN WITNESS whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this third
day of January one thousand eight hundred and six.

                                                   Samuel Pleasants Jr (seal)

Sealed and delivered
in the presence of:

John Pleasants
John W. Pleasants
John B. Richeson

                         At a Monthly Court Continued by Adjournment
                    & Held for the City of Richmond at the Courthouse on
                          Wednesday the 16th day of April 1806

This Deed of Emancipation was proved by the oaths of John Pleasants and John
B. Richeson, 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 440


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