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Title
Louisa County Free Black Register Book 1, No 161
Description
N.o 161
State of Virginia
Louisa County Court Clerks Office September 6.th 1834. Billy a negro man slave emancipated by the last will and testament of Ralph Quarles deceased, this day made application in the said office to be registered according to law, It is therefore certified to all whom it may concern that the said Billy is forty odd years of age, about five feet five inches high, is a dark mulatto of good countenance, has high cheek bones and a high fore head, two small scars on the thumb of the right hand, one near the root of the nail & the other near where the thumb joins the hand produced by cuts some small white spots about the hands occasioned by lime eating them when plastering which may not endure, no other apparent mark or scar deemed worthy of notice.
In Louisa County Court
The foregoing register was this day compared by the court with the said Billy and ordered to be certified to be correctly taken. In testimony whereof I John Hunter clerk of the said court have hereto put my hand & affixed the Public seal of said court this
State of Virginia
Louisa County Court Clerks Office September 6.th 1834. Billy a negro man slave emancipated by the last will and testament of Ralph Quarles deceased, this day made application in the said office to be registered according to law, It is therefore certified to all whom it may concern that the said Billy is forty odd years of age, about five feet five inches high, is a dark mulatto of good countenance, has high cheek bones and a high fore head, two small scars on the thumb of the right hand, one near the root of the nail & the other near where the thumb joins the hand produced by cuts some small white spots about the hands occasioned by lime eating them when plastering which may not endure, no other apparent mark or scar deemed worthy of notice.
In Louisa County Court
The foregoing register was this day compared by the court with the said Billy and ordered to be certified to be correctly taken. In testimony whereof I John Hunter clerk of the said court have hereto put my hand & affixed the Public seal of said court this
Publisher
Louisa County Historical Society
Date
1834
Identifier
LCBB_161