Robert Carter letter regarding manumission of enslaved people, 1792 January 2

Whereas the General Assembly for the Commonwealth of Virginia did in the year
seventeen hundred eighty two enact a law entitled "An Act to Authorize The
Manumission of Slaves" now be it remembered that Robert Carter of Nomony
Hall in the County of Westmoreland & Commonwealth aforesaid, do under the
said Act for myself my heirs executors & administrators, emancipate from
slavery Dinah at the old ordinary in Westmoreland County aged forty
three years - - - In witness whereof I have herein set my hand
& affixed my seal this first day of August in the year of our Lord seventeen
hundred ninety one. Robert Carter (Seal)

An extract from the deed recorded in the Northumberland District Court
January 2nd, 1792. Thomas Edwards C. N.D.