Manumission by Gideon Longfellow for girl Lucy
Manumission by Gideon Longfellow for girl Lucy

Manumission by Gideon Longfellow for girl Lucy

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CH_CA_2022_IC_005_075
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Manumission states that Lucy is eleven or thereabouts at the time of the manumission but will be free when she turns thirty. The document also states that nay children she has, even before she turns thirty, shall be free at birth.
MS0066-07-38-001
Washington College
December 1803

emancipation
Slave labor, Slaves--Emancipation
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