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

Record Detail

Record #716 from Virginia Deeds of Emancipation (Accomack County), 1701-1838 (Library of Virginia African American Narratives project)

File Name _0010_0001_0001-0002
Record Type Deed of Manumission
Year 1794
First Name Joshua
Middle Name
Surname Dark
Alias
Gender M
Age
Physical Description
Means of Manumission by petition of Levin Marshall of Accomack County
Previous Owner's Name Levin Marshall
Additional Slave Names Pleasant
Additional Free Black Names
Additional Surnames
Recorder's Notes
Processor's Notes born of Pleasant; the property of Marshall's mother Mason Watson
EAD http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=lva/vi02251.xml
Locality Norfolk County
Source Norfolk County (Va.) Free Negro and Slave Records, 1718-1862

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