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John R. Allison to Dick

Bourbon County Courts

Deed of Emancipation

Deed Book A Page 30

Researched by: Jerry Taylor

Transcribed by: Charee Harvey

John R. Allison to Dick

I John R. Allison of the County of Monroe and state of Indiana do hereby manumit free & discharge from the service of me the said Allison my negro man slave Dick age about forty five years and do hereby give and manumitt the said slave his slave his freedom and manumission from the person? of myself and all persons whatsoever claiming a right to his services by, through and under me. In ___  ___  said Jno B. Allison manumitt and set my hand and  affidavit and seal in the County of Bourbon and state of Kentucky this forth day of October 1824.                                                                        John B. Allison (seal)

Bourbon County October Court 1824.

This deed of emancipation from John B. Allison to Negro man Dick was this day acknowledged in open court and considered to be an order.

                                                                                    Att

                                                                                                Thos P. Smith (seal)

                                                                                                By A.C. Dickerson (seal)

_______________________________________________________________________

Thomas Baker to Manuel

Deed of Emancipation

Bourbon County Courts Book A Pg 32

Researched by: Jerry Taylor

Transcribed by: Charee Harvey

Jan. 2005

  I Thomas Baker of Bourbon County and State of Kentucky do hereby emancipate and set free a negro man Manuel for slavery to me or my heirs or of signs my further service. In short my mission by this deed of  manumission is to liberate and set said negro man as free as by the laws of Kentucky my negro can be made and I do wish this deed and order given under my hand and seal this 6th day of July 1825.

Attest                                                                                                Tho Baker (seal)

Benj Baker

Will Baker

Abner Cosby

W. Bowles

Bourbon County September Court 1825

This deed of manumission from Thos Baker to Manuel was this day proved in open court by the sake of Benjamin and William Baker in subscribing with negro Manuel to be the act and deed of the said Thomas and order to be serviced.

                                                                                    Att: Tho P. Smith C.N.C.

                                                                                     By A. B. Dickerson D.C.

Indentured Sal

From Benjamin J. Brice to Rachel Brice - 1799

Greene County, Pennsylvania
 

This indenture made this fourth day of September in the year of our Lord One thousand and seven hundred and ninety nine. Witnesseth that Benjamin J. Brice of Harrison County and State of Virginia hath bound and by these presents does bind NEGRO SAL (who was borne a Slave for life, and as such could still have been held by the said Brice in the State of Virginia) to Rachel Brice her heirs or assigns of Green County and State of Pennsylvania with her or them to dwell and to serve until she arrives at the full age of twenty eight years during all which times the said above mentioned NEGRO SAL shall faithfully serve her said mistress her heirs or assigns in all lawful commands according to the best of her power and ability and the said Rachel Brice doth on her part agree to find the said NEGRO SAL in everything suitable to her Station and to prevent her from becoming a publick charge during the time of her service in witness whereof the parties have hereunto set their hands and affixed their Seals the day & year above written.
 

Signed Sealed & Delivered Benj. J. Brice (Seal) 

in presence of Rachel Brice (Seal)
                      Rebeckah Hyde
                      George Evans

Greene County ss. 

This day came 

Benjm. J. Brice (Seal) and Rachel Brice each personally before me the Subscriber one of the Justices of the peace in and
for the said County and acknowledged the above Indenture to be their Act and deed and desire the same may be recorded as such. Given under my hand and seal this 4th of September 1799

Samuel Hyde
Recorded 7th March 1803.

Examd.
John Boreman Recorder

Source: Green Co., PA message board

Deed of Manumission

Thomas Roach to Richard

Cumberland County, Pennsylvania 

Deed of Manumission

Thomas Roach to Richard - 1801

MANUMISSION..THOMAS ROACH to RICHARD a MULATTO MAN
Know all men by these presents that I Thomas Roach of the township of Cumberland County of Greene and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, for divers good causes and consideration me - the said Thomas Roach hereunto moving, have liberated and discharged, and by these presents do liberate, discharge, and forever quit claim to all right interest or claim I have, or ever had in and to a certain MULATTO named RICHARD, so that thereafter for ever he may act transact and contract as another free man. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this fourteenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and one.

In presence of Henry Swan

Greene County Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Thomas Roach (seal)
(seal) Before me the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in & for the said county came Thomas Roach and acknowledged the above instrument of writing to be his Act and Deed for the purposes therein mentioned. In testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand & seal November 14, 1801.

Ex Recorded 19 Nov 1801

Wm. Seaton
John Boreman
Recorder

Emancipation of Robert Williams to Wife and Children

1806 Maryland

Passed 25th of January, 1806.
An ACT for the benefit of Robert Williams, a free black man, and
of his wife and children,

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, by the petition of Sue, or Susannah,
Williams, that she is the wife of Robert Williams, of Anne-Arundel county, a free black
man, by whom she had the following children, to wit: Susan, George, Dinah, Caesar, Rachel and
William, that her husband, the said Robert Williams, previous to the birth of the said children,
and with an intention of freeing her, purchased her from John Galloway, who executed a bill of sale
to the said Robert Williams, in lieu of making a deed of manumission, by which, instead of her be-
ing free, she became his slave, and therefore his children also are now his slaves: And whereas it
is further represented, that the said Robert Williams has been deprived of his understanding, and
found, under process from the chancery court, to be a lunatic, and of course incapable of executing
a deed of manumission; and, for as much as. in the event of his death, without being restored to
his senses, his wife and children might be sold as slaves for the benefit of others, they have prayed
a law may. pass directing the mode by which they may he freed; and the facts appearing true, and
the prayer reasonable, therefore,

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That it shall and may be lawful for the
chancellor of this state to execute a deed for the emancipation and freeing the said Sue, or Susan-
nah, Williams, and the children aforesaid, and such other children as the said Robert Williams may
have, and which shall appear to the chancellor, in point of law, to be his slaves, such deed of eman-
cipation to take effect at the time prescribed therein, and in every other respect to have the same
effect and operation, to every intent and purpose, as a deed of emancipation would have had if re-
gularly executed, acknowledged and recorded, by the said Robert Williams, while compos mentis, the
deed so to be executed by the chancellor shall be recorded amongst the land records of Anne-Arun-
del county, within six months from its date, any law to the contrary notwithstanding

Newton Canon to Isaiah

Bourbon Co., KY

Deeds of Emancipation Book, Page 253

Transcribed by Charee Harvey

 Know all men by these present that I,  Newton Canon of the County Bourbon and State of Kentucky from motives of benevolence and humanity have manumitted and hereby do manumit and set free from slavery my negro man Isaiah aged about 40 years, of dark complexion and five feet eight inches high, and I do hereby give grant and release unto the said Isaiah all my right title and claim of in and to his person labour and service, and of in and to the Estate and property which he may here after acquire or obtain. Given under my hand and seal this 6^th day of January 1851.

                                                                                    Newton Canon (seal)

Bourbon County Court.                                                January Court, 1851

This deed of Emancipation from Newton Canon to Isiah was this day produced and acknowledged in open court by said Newton Canon to be his act and deed and was ordered to record.

Att Thos P. Smith, Clerk                                                 

By Charles L. Nelson, Clerk