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Title
Louisa County Free Black Register Book 1, No 40 & 41
Description
N.o 40
Henrico County Set
Registered with the Clerk of the Court of said County Jesse Jones No. 170 a black man about twenty Three Years old, six feet high with a scar on the left side of his face, was emancipated by the last will and testament of William Jones deceased of Henrico County. Given under my hand this second day of May one thousand eight hundred and ten. (Sig.) J B Whitlocke C.H.C.
Entered in my office this 10.th April 1816 (Sig.) Teste W. Miller C.G.C.
Gooch.d Clerks Office 8 May 1819. A Copy (Sig.) Teste W. Miller C.G.C.
N.o 41
Virginia Set No. 274
In Pursuance of an act of assembly entitled, an act for regulating the police of towns in this commonwealth and to restrain the practice of negroes going at large I Robert Smith Chew Clerk of the Court of Hustings for the town and corporation of Fredericksburg do hereby certify that Lucy a mulatto woman aged 29 year, five feet & a half inch high, who, was emancipated by Ralph Quarles is registered in my office agreeable to the direction of the above recited act, certified this 12.th day of April 1819. Albert N. Walker, one of the magistrates in the town of Fredericksburg (Sig.) R. S. Chew C.C.H.
Henrico County Set
Registered with the Clerk of the Court of said County Jesse Jones No. 170 a black man about twenty Three Years old, six feet high with a scar on the left side of his face, was emancipated by the last will and testament of William Jones deceased of Henrico County. Given under my hand this second day of May one thousand eight hundred and ten. (Sig.) J B Whitlocke C.H.C.
Entered in my office this 10.th April 1816 (Sig.) Teste W. Miller C.G.C.
Gooch.d Clerks Office 8 May 1819. A Copy (Sig.) Teste W. Miller C.G.C.
N.o 41
Virginia Set No. 274
In Pursuance of an act of assembly entitled, an act for regulating the police of towns in this commonwealth and to restrain the practice of negroes going at large I Robert Smith Chew Clerk of the Court of Hustings for the town and corporation of Fredericksburg do hereby certify that Lucy a mulatto woman aged 29 year, five feet & a half inch high, who, was emancipated by Ralph Quarles is registered in my office agreeable to the direction of the above recited act, certified this 12.th day of April 1819. Albert N. Walker, one of the magistrates in the town of Fredericksburg (Sig.) R. S. Chew C.C.H.
Publisher
Louisa County Historical Society
Date
1819
Identifier
LCBB_40_41