| Name | Age | Color or Race | Sex | Role in document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Luckey Thompson | Black ("negro") | grantee |
At the request of Moses Liverpool the Will of Moore Fauntleroy was recorded on 13 September 1804. [Compiler's note: The entire Will appears to be recorded. A brother, Robert, is mentioned as well as a nephew, Henry S. Turner, and a nephew, Edward Hill Carten. Also mentioned is Daniel Wilson, relationship unknown.] [First document] Court in Richmond County 5 April 1803, the last Will and Testament of Moore Fauntleroy, deceased, was presented in court by Robert Fauntleroy one of the executors and it appeared satisfactory to the court that the Will was all written and signed by the Testator in his own hand; the Will was admitted. Robert Fauntleroy took the oath of an executor and entered bond with security according to law. A certificate was granted Robert Fauntleroy for obtaining Probate. Test. B.McCarty CRC "[G]ive and bequest to the blind free Negro Billy Lewis 40 shillings per annum during his life." "It is my desire that at the end of 1802 all my Negroes may have their freedom, but if not, they to be hired in the county and not be removed out against their consent, and the money arising from their hires; ½ to be paid to them, at the end of the year, in proportion as [their] hire, the other½ the Negroes to be clothed out of, and if any balance, ... I desire five pounds cash may be paid to Old Jack Blue, the like sum to be paid to Tom Cary and three pounds to Somerset. .. that Tom Carey may have the greatest part of my everyday wearing apparel, my linens excepted "[Compiler's note: It is unknown if these men are enslaved, free Negroes, or whites] Signed by Moore Fauntleroy on 15 December 1801. [Second document} Dated 25 September 1803 given to Moses Liverpool," a black man about 5'8" tall about 30 years of age, is a very smart smiling fellow, is a good cooper, house carpenter and is a little acquainted with the ship carpenters business, he is one of the within liberated slaves." Signed by Robert Fauntleroy, Executor of Moore Fauntleroy. [Compiler's note: The following entry of Luckey Thompson was recorded directly underneath the above. It may, or may not, be related to the Will of Moore Fauntleroy. It does, however, come from the same Richmond County Clerks Office and has the same name B. McCarty, who is probably the Clerk for Richmond County.] No. 7. Richmond County Clerks Office. "Luckey Thompson [was] born free the first day of March 1780, 5 feet 1 3/8 inches tall, black color, no apparent marks or scars on her face, head or hands, other than a scar occasioned by a cut near the upper joint of her left thumb. Registered in my office 15 March 1804. B. McCarty, CRCTest. Richard Barnes a Justice of the Peace for the said county [Richmond] State of Virginia."
