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Title
Louisa County Free Black Register Book 1, No 35 & 36A
Description
N.o 35
Louisa County to wit
Wilson Kenney a man of colour born free, this day made application in the clerks office of the said County to be registered in conformity to an act of the General Assembly of Virginia in that case made and provided whereupon it is Ordered to be certified to all to whom it may concern that the said Wilson Kenney is about Twenty four years of age, five feet five inches high, a bright mulatto has a bushy head of hair, and has a scar in his forehead occasioned from a burn-no other apparrant scar or mark. Which said register taken as a aforesaid is duly recorded in a book kept for that purpose-and being compared with the said Wilson Kenney in open court, is by the Court ordered to be certified to be correctly taken. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & caused the Public seal of said County to be hereto affixed this day of May 1821 in the 45.th year of the Commonwealth (Sig.) Teste Jno. Hunter C.L.C.
N.o 36
Virginia=Louisa County Court Clerks Office Aug.t 3.d 1821
Mary Putney daughter of Fanny Putney (who was born free) this day made application to be registered (in conformity with an act of the General Assembly of Virginia in that case made and provided) It is therefore certified to all to whom it may concern, That the said Mary Putney is a person of light complextion, about four feet eleven and an half inches high, between twenty two and three years of age, has a bushy head of hair, very black eyes and a good countenance no apparant scar or mark, she was bound to a certain John Shipperson by Indenture bearing date the ninth day of August Eighteen hundred and thirteen and filed in the office of the County Court of Louisa reference being thereto had will more fully appear, which register taken as above being compared by the Court, with the said Mary Putney is ordered to be certified to be correctly taken-In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the public seal of said County to be hereto affixed the day of August 1821 in the 46.th year of the Commonwealth (Sig.) John Hunter C.L.C.
Louisa County to wit
Wilson Kenney a man of colour born free, this day made application in the clerks office of the said County to be registered in conformity to an act of the General Assembly of Virginia in that case made and provided whereupon it is Ordered to be certified to all to whom it may concern that the said Wilson Kenney is about Twenty four years of age, five feet five inches high, a bright mulatto has a bushy head of hair, and has a scar in his forehead occasioned from a burn-no other apparrant scar or mark. Which said register taken as a aforesaid is duly recorded in a book kept for that purpose-and being compared with the said Wilson Kenney in open court, is by the Court ordered to be certified to be correctly taken. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & caused the Public seal of said County to be hereto affixed this day of May 1821 in the 45.th year of the Commonwealth (Sig.) Teste Jno. Hunter C.L.C.
N.o 36
Virginia=Louisa County Court Clerks Office Aug.t 3.d 1821
Mary Putney daughter of Fanny Putney (who was born free) this day made application to be registered (in conformity with an act of the General Assembly of Virginia in that case made and provided) It is therefore certified to all to whom it may concern, That the said Mary Putney is a person of light complextion, about four feet eleven and an half inches high, between twenty two and three years of age, has a bushy head of hair, very black eyes and a good countenance no apparant scar or mark, she was bound to a certain John Shipperson by Indenture bearing date the ninth day of August Eighteen hundred and thirteen and filed in the office of the County Court of Louisa reference being thereto had will more fully appear, which register taken as above being compared by the Court, with the said Mary Putney is ordered to be certified to be correctly taken-In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the public seal of said County to be hereto affixed the day of August 1821 in the 46.th year of the Commonwealth (Sig.) John Hunter C.L.C.
Publisher
Louisa County Historical Society
Date
1821
Identifier
LCBB_35_36A