3

Know all men by these presents that I.
A. T. B. Merrill of the City of Richmond and
State of Virginia, have manumitted, emancipated
and set free and by these presents do manumit
emancipate and set free a mulatto man slave,
Charles Reese, aged forty years; and I hereby
declare him the said Charles Reese to be entirely
liberated from slavery, and entitled to all the
rights and privileges of a free person with which
it is in my power to vest him. The said Charles
Reese hereby emancipated is a mulatto of bright complexion,
about five feet and nine inches high and is
abouty forty one years of age.
In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal
this twentieth day of November in the year one
thousand eight hundred and fifty seven.
A. T. B. Merrill seal

City of Richmond, to wit:
In the Office fo the Court of Hurstings for the said City, the 21th day of November 1857.
This deed was acknowledged by A. T. B. Merrill
a party thereto and admitted to record at half
past nine o'clock. A. M.
Teste Ro: Howard H.
A Copy
Teste, Ro: Howard, Clk

State of Virginia; City of Richmond, to wit
I, Robert Howard, desk of the Court of Hurstings
for said City, hereby certify that the above
is a true Copy, from the records of the said Court.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed the seal of said Court,
this 5th day of December 1857.
Ro: Howard, clk.