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> [Original Message]
> From: Jon Kukla <[log in to unmask]>
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> Date: 3/6/2007 9:52:33 AM
> Subject: [VA-HIST] Granting Time - another example
>
> Michael Nicholls's searchable data base (cited in recent posts) can also
> shed light on a question posed earlier about the phrase 'given their time'
> (and variants) as an informal form of manumission.
> Picking a county at random this morning, I used the Acrobat 'search'
> function to seek the word 'time.' Of seven hits under Chesterfield wills,
> several are directly relevant. In the example below from the Nicholls
> database I have retyped HIS TIME in capital letters so it stands out.
>
> Chesterfield County Will Book 8 1813-1818 LVA Reel # 29 p. 510
>
> Will of Louis Ducos Lahaille – 1816 – directing his executor to "take
money
> owed to him from Louis Truehart’s . . . and buy a boy named William, about
> 2 yrs old, . . . and which boy I consider and believe to be my child" and
> directing the executor further to "keep him until he is 21 and bring him
> up to gardening as a trade and profession" and then William is "to have
> and enjoy from 21 on the full and absolute benefit of HIS TIME and labour
> and in the same manner as free men are entitled to the same, but if
> the said William shall think proper to leave VA or iF at his age of 21 the
> laws of VA shall permit the emancipation of slaves then and in either
> event it is my will and desire that the said Wm shall be absolutely and
> forever free."
>
> Pretty clearly, further research in Va wills and deeds would yield more
> examples and shed additional light on the practice of 'granting time' in
> lieu of formal manumission.
>
>
>
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