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Box BW 20

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

Hugh Ivey emancipation deed

 Item — Box: BW 20, Folder: [X030869178]
Identifier: MSS 16395
Scope and Contents Note

Sussex County, Virginia plantation owner Hugh Ivey (1826; 0.04 cubic feet) names the twenty-seven enslaved persons in the body of the document to be freed; this is not Ivey's original signed copy, but rather a transcript by a county clerk made at the time.

Dates: 1826-02-02