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Title
Louisa County Free Black Register Book 1, No 180
Description
N.o 180
State of Virginia
Louisa County Court Clerks Office July the 8.th 1835
James a negro man emancipated by the last will and testament of Ralph Quarles dec.d 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 James is fifty odd years of age, about five feet eight inches high, complexion a medium between dark and light, of very good countenance hair longer and straiter than usual for negroes, and smartly grey, nose turns up at the end more than usual, no other apparent mark or scar deemed worthy of notice.
In Louisa Count Curt
The foregoing Register was this day compared by the court with the said James 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, and affixed the Public Seal of said Court this day of (Sig.) John Hunter
Attest
a justice of the peace of Louisa County
State of Virginia
Louisa County Court Clerks Office July the 8.th 1835
James a negro man emancipated by the last will and testament of Ralph Quarles dec.d 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 James is fifty odd years of age, about five feet eight inches high, complexion a medium between dark and light, of very good countenance hair longer and straiter than usual for negroes, and smartly grey, nose turns up at the end more than usual, no other apparent mark or scar deemed worthy of notice.
In Louisa Count Curt
The foregoing Register was this day compared by the court with the said James 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, and affixed the Public Seal of said Court this day of (Sig.) John Hunter
Attest
a justice of the peace of Louisa County
Publisher
Louisa County Historical Society
Date
1835
Identifier
LCBB_180