Edward H. Nabb Research Center for Delmarva History & Culture Enduring Connections: Exploring Delmarva's Black History

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Record #32 from Instruments of Freedom, Deeds and Wills of Emancipation Northampton County, Virginia 1782 to 1864

Page 38
Name of Enslaver John Stratton
Document type Deed [Manumission]
Abstract Information about the Enslaved Person/People Being possessed of a Negro woman Lucy in fee Simple od hereby release unot her all claim which I have in her as my slave, do hereby….the said Lucy free. Signed Exd Thomas Lyatt Savage C.N.C.
Date 14 April 1800

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