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1803 Autograph Manumission Document. One page, 6" x 12.5", Richmond, Virginia; February 7, 1803. A manuscript record documenting the manumission of an enslaved child named Lucy. It reads, in part: "Know all men by these presents that I Benjamin Calver of the City of Richmond in the Commonwealth of Virginia for divers good causes and considerations...set free from the state and condition of Slavery a negro girl slave by the name of Lucy about the age of eleven years whom I purchased from Catherine Jacobs...fourteen years from the date hereof which will be on the Twelfth day of October in the year One thousand Eight hundred and sixteen retaining and claiming the use and services of the said negro girl Lucy to me..." It is signed "Benjn. Calver", "Geo: Dunlevy", and "Geo: Chisman." An early exemplar, very rare. Docketed on verso.Condition: 2.5" and 2" splits to old folds. Archival tape repair to one fold on verso. Lightly toned.
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2022 October 19 Historic African Americana Signature® Auction #6248 (go to Auction Home page)
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