DC.WAS.AH33.504.1

2 people are documented within DC.WAS.AH33.504.1
Name Age Color or Race Sex Role in document
Congressman John Roane grantor
Simon 22 Mixed race ("mulatto") Male enslaved

Abstract

Manumission was recorded on 17 April 1815. "John Roane of King William Co., Virginia, and now a member of the Congress of the United States, in compliance with a request of his late father and to "fulfil his humane intentions as expressed in his last will and testament and recorded in the County Court of King William Co., Virginia, and in consideration of the personal good behavior of a certain Mulatto man, or man of color, named Simon," sets Simon free. Simon is 22 years old. Signed on 2 March 1815 by John Roane.