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Orange County (Va.) Deed of Emancipation, 1784 Mar. 27

Orange County (Va.) Deed of Emancipation, 1784 Mar. 27, liberating Presilar, age 24, and Sarah, age 22, from Thomas Coppedge. The deed (photocopy) is worded as follows: "I Thomas Coppedge of Orange County from a deliberate consideration and conviction of my own mind am willing to fulfil that injunction of our Lord do unto all men as I would they should do unto me and having under my care one negro woman named Presiler twenty four years old and one ditto named Sarah twenty two years old, I do now for myself and my heirs release and discharge from being my property hereafter forever the above named negroes."

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Orange County (Va.) Deed of Emancipation, 1784 Mar. 27

Orange County (Va.) Circuit Court.

Orange County (Va.) Deed of Emancipation, 1784 Mar. 27, liberating Presilar, age 24, and Sarah, age 22, from Thomas Coppedge. The deed (photocopy) is worded as follows: "I Thomas Coppedge of Orange County from a deliberate consideration and conviction of my own mind am willing to fulfil that injunction of our Lord do unto all men as I would they should do unto me and having under my care one negro woman named Presiler twenty four years old and one ditto named Sarah twenty two years old, I do now for myself and my heirs release and discharge from being my property hereafter forever the above named negroes."

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