Mayho v. . Sears
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal from the Superior Court of Law of Orange county, at Spring Term, 1842, his Honor Judge Dick presiding. This was an action of trespass vi & armis, and the parties submitted it to the court upon the following case agreed: On the 23d of July, 1805, John Moring, then a citizen of the county of Surry, in the State of Virginia, and the owner of certain negro slaves, made and executed a deed of manumission of the said slaves, according to the law of Virginia, which deed was…
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Appeal from the Superior Court of Law of Orange county, at Spring Term, 1842, his Honor Judge Dick presiding. This was an action of trespass vi & armis, and the parties submitted it to the court upon the following case agreed: On the 23d of July, 1805, John Moring, then a citizen of the county of Surry, in the State of Virginia, and the owner of certain negro slaves, made and executed a deed of manumission of the said slaves, according to the law of Virginia, which deed was by him duly acknowledged in the court of the said county on the same day and ordered to be recorded, and was accordingly…
1Opinion of the CourtRuffin, C. J.
The deed of emancipation, stated in the case agreed, is in these words : “To all whom it may concern : Know ye, that I, John Moring, of &c. do by these presents emancipate and set at full liberty from myself, my heirs, and all persons claiming under me, a certain parcel of negroes as they come to the age and time hereinafter to be mentioned: Hannah, Patrick, Cherry, Jordan and Charlotte, to be free without day — Isabel to be free from the 1st day of November, 1807; Polly to be free the 1st day of April, 1814; Burwell to be free the 10th day of April, 1822, &c.” Before the 1st of April, 1814,…
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