EMANCIPATION: Montgomery - Caldwell Co 

Loose County Court Papers, Caldwell Co, KY Clerk's Office

"At a County Court Begin & held for the Caldwell County at the
Court House in the Town of Princeton on Monday the fifteenth
day of February in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight 
hundred and thirty Six:
        John MONTOMGERY (a free man of Colour) produced in open
Court a Deed of emancipation Setting free his negro Woman named
Abbey (his wife) and his infant Son named Jackson which Deed is
here ordered to be Recorded to wit:
        Know all men by these presents that I John Montgomery
(a free man of Colour) of the County of Caldwell & State of
Kentucky from motives of benevolence and humanity have manumitted
and do hereby manumit & set free from Slavery my negro woman Abbey
aged about thirty three years  black complexion, And my infant Son
Jackson aged 6 months. And I do hereby give, grant & release to her
the said Abbey and my Son of all my right, title & claim of, in and to
their person & labour and Service and of in and to the estate & 
property which they may hereafter acquire or obtain. In witness 
whereof I have hereunto Set my hand & seal this 15th day of 
February 1836.    John (X  his mark) Montgomery

Which negro woman Abbey and her child Jackson appeared in open
Court and are of the description in sd. deed mentioned ... which
Montgomery in open Court acknowledged to be his act ..."


Submitted by: Brenda Jerome 
<bjjerome@comsource.net>
Date: 23 Oct 1997