List of enslaved African Americans freed by the will of John Carville Hynson
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CH_CA_2022_IC_005_066
Institutional Collections
List concerns several enslaved people and their status including Synthia who was freed seven years after Hynson's death according to his 1814 will. There is a question about Synthia's children Eliza and Felix as well as their children. Felix was freed ten years after Hynson's death. Eliza's husband and children are named on the back of the document.
MS0066-06-39-002
legal documents
Slaves--Emancipation, Slave labor
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