{"deed_identifier":"DC.WAS.AB27.516.1","deed_county":"Washington DC.","deed_date":"December 31, 1811","deed_type":"Manumission","book":"Book AB27, Page 516.","people":[{"occupation_enslaved":"","name":"Robert Smith","role":"grantor","color_race":"","sex":"","age":"","person_skills":"","date_added":"","group_sale":"","consideration":"","person_url":"https://dlas.uncg.edu/deeds/person/67259","birthdate":"","deathdate":"","family_roles":[],"diseases":""},{"occupation_enslaved":"","name":"Michael Fletcher","role":"enslaved","color_race":"","sex":"","age":"","person_skills":"","date_added":"","group_sale":"","consideration":"","person_url":"https://dlas.uncg.edu/deeds/person/67258","birthdate":"","deathdate":"","family_roles":[],"diseases":""}],"summaries":[],"abstracts":["Manumission was recorded on 31 December 1811. Robert Smith states\nthat he purchased from Dr. John Bullis on this day, his [Robert Smith\u0027s] present coachman,\nMichael Fletcher, and he further states \"with a view to his happiness I do hereby state to him ...\nthat in case he will behave soberly and faithfully for the term of five years from the date hereof,\"\nhe shall then be free. \"This paper is delivered to Michael as an evidence of this my assurance.\"\nSigned in Washington on 14 November 1808 by Robert Smith.\nIn the left margin of the handwritten Liber the following is written: \"Examined and Del[ivered] M.\nFletcher\""],"compiler_notes":[]}