RICHMOND, VA - COURT - Peter Smith, Emancipation of slave Perry Smith, Nov 1804
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Court Records: Peter Smith, City of Richmond, VA (1804)

I Peter Smith 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 situation and having under my care a
negro man slave named Perry Smith do hereby emancipate and declare him, the
said Perry Smith free from, and after the sale hereof and I do for myself, my
heirs, executors and administrators, relinquish my right title claim or
pretentions of claim whatsoever as a slave to the said Perry, or to any estate
he may acquire hereafter and he and his pastarily? are to enjoy the full
benefit of freedom in as full and ample a manner as if they 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 seal this ? day of November
in the year one thousand eight hundred and four.

                                                    his
                                              Peter  X  Smith  (seal)
                                                    mark

                         At a Monthly Court of Hustings 
                  & Held for the City of Richmond at the Courthouse on
                          Monday the 10th day of December 1804

This Deed of Emancipation was acknowledged by Peter Smith, a party 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 149

Note: Spelling errors were not corrected.  Paragraphing and some punctuation were
added by transcriber for ease in reading.  There are no paragraphs in the original.


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