title:
Emancipation Record, 08
creator:
Greene County Clerk of Courts
subject:
Slavery, Emancipation, Freedom, African Americans, Manumission, Greene County, Ohio, Brunswick County, Virginia, John Duncan, Jeffry Mays, Josiah Grover, Harry Kinley, Thomas Embree, John T. Bowdoin, Godfrey Brown, R. Turnbull
description:
Transcription:On the above date Alexander Stow entered on record in the office aforesaid, the age andname of a negro girl; named Susanna, born in the year of our Lord one thousand sevenhundred ninety-five- attest [witness] Josiah Grover clk [clerk]8State of Ohio Greene county} Clerks office of the court of Common pleas October 18,1817-Pursuant to the statute in such case made and provided, John Duncan this day enters withthe clerk of the above court the name and age of a black or negroe boy, as follows, viz.[namely]JeffreyJeffry, alias Jeffry Mays, aged six years, seven months and three days, born in the state ofMaryland, on the fifteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and eleven.Attest [witness] Josiah Grover Clk [clerk]29th November 1805 Thomas Embree entered this day with the Clerk of the Court ofCom [Common] pleas the name and age of a Black Boy by the name of Harry Kinley inthe following manner towit Henry Kinley was born on the 31st day of January 1801 andwas brought to this State on the 29th Nov. 1805Brunswick County towit I do hereby certify that the bearer hereof Godfrey Brown a freeman of colour aged fifty two years about five feet ten and a half inches high yellowComplexion has two scars on his left arm near the elbow carries the mark of the smallpox on the face and was emancipated by John T. Bowdoin as will appear by reference tothe deed of emancipation duly recorded in the county court aforesaid. Given under myhand this 27th day of March 1820. Teste [witness] R Turnbull C.B.C. [Clerk BrunswickCounty]Registered No [number] 99C Cordle J.P- [Justice of the Peace]
publisher:
Greene County Records Center and Archives
contributor:
Greene County Clerk of Courts
date:
1805-1845
type:
Image
format:
jpg
identifier:
COC20292
source:
language:
English
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coverage:
rights:
Public