Edwin

Summary

Albert Wallace of Kentucky sets free his “Mulatto Negro Boy” Edwin, who is 15 years old.

Partial Transcription

Albert Wallace Freedom Papers to Edwin

Know all men by these presents that I Albert Wallace of the County of Crittenden in the State of Kentuckey from Motives of benevolence & humanity have Manumitted and do hereby manumit & set free from Slavery my Mulatto Negro Boy Edwin. age about 15 years and I do hereby give grant and release to him the said Edwin All my right and title & claim of in and to his person, labour  an service and of in & to the estate and property which  he may hereafter acquire or obtain In Witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal the 12th day of June in the year of our Lord 1847.
Albert Wallace (Seal)

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Recorded Jany. 21. 1854. ~