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We Thomas Chappell, John Chappell, Benjamin Chappell & Agnes Chappell
of Prince George County, and Aquila Binford of Dinwiddie County
Virginia being fully persuaded that freedom is the natural right of all
mankind and that it is our duties to do unto others as we would be done
by, and having under our care one Negroe of the following name Charles
Rivers aged 22 years, we do therefore Emancipate and set free the said
Negroe and we do for ourselves, our heirs, Executors Administrators,
relinquish all our rights, titles, Interest, claims or pretentions of
claims whatsoever without any interruption from us, or any person or
persons claiming from or under any of us either to his person or to any
Estate he may hereafter acquire, in witness we have hereunto set our
hands and seals this seventeenth day of the month caled March 1792. Agness Chappell (Seal) Aquila Binford (Seal) John Chappell (Seal) Benjamin Chappell (Seal) Thomas Chappell (Seal) Test Chappell Binford Thomas Hunnicutt At a Court held for Prince George County at the Courthouse on Tuesday the 10th day of July 1792. This before written Deed of Emancipation from Agness Chappell, Aquilla Binford, John Chappell, Benjamin Chappell and Thomas Chappell, to Charles Rivers, was proved to be the Act and Deed of the said Agness, Aquilla, John, Benjamin, and Thomas by the affirmations of Chappell Binford & Thomas Hunnicutt(they being Quakers) the witnesses thereto and by order of the Court it is truely Recorded. Teste Peter Williams ClCur. |