| 1802 - 440 pages
...hand at the time of my decease, to be used and disposed of as she may think proper. Item. — Upon the decease of my wife, it is my will and desire, that all the slaves which I hold in my own right, shall receive their freedom. To emancipate them during her life, would,... | |
| Aaron Bancroft - 1807 - 576 pages
...on hand at the time of my decease, to be used and disposed of as she maythink proper. Item. — Upon the decease of my wife, it is my will and desire that all the Slaves which I hold in my own right shall re* In the origin»l manufcript, GIOICE WAIBINcTON'I oam« wa«... | |
| David Ramsay - Presidents - 1807 - 486 pages
...hand at the time of my decease, to be used and disposed of as she may think proper. Item. — Upon the decease of my wife, it is my will and desire, that all the slaves which I hold in my own right shall receive their freedom. To emancipate them during her life would,... | |
| Aaron Bancroft - 1808 - 604 pages
...• In the original manuscript, George Washington's name wai written at the bottom of »very page. receive their freedom. To emancipate, them during...would, though earnestly wished by me, be attended with guch insuperable difficulties, on account of their intermixture by marriage with the dower negroes,... | |
| Aaron Bancroft - 1808 - 584 pages
...hand at the time of my decease, to be used and disposed of as she may think proper. Item. — Upon the decease of my wife, it is my will and desire that all the Slaves which I hold in my own right shall • In the original manuscript, George Washington's name wa« written... | |
| John Corry - 1809 - 262 pages
...hand at the time of my decease, to be used and disposed of as she may think- proper. " Item. — Upon the decease of my wife, it is my will and desire, that all the slaves which 1 hold in my own right shall receive their freedom. To emancipate them during her life would,... | |
| Slavery - 1837 - 340 pages
...the door of the apostle as a preacher to labouring people and slaves." • WASHINGTON'S WILL. Upon the decease of my wife it is my will and desire that all my slaves, which I hold in my own right, shall receive their freedom. To emancipate them during her... | |
| Julius Rubens Ames - Antislavery movements - 1837 - 716 pages
...Hence frequent collisions, obstinate, envenomed, and bloody contests. — Fareveil Address, 1796. Upon the decease of my wife, it is my will and desire that all my slaves, which I hold in my own rigM, shall receive their freedom. To emancipate them during her... | |
| Julius Rubens Ames - Enslaved persons - 1839 - 160 pages
...— Farewell Address. Upon the decease of my wife, it is my will and desire that all my slaves, which I hold in my own right, shall receive their freedom....them during her life, would, though earnestly wished, bo attended with such insuperable difficulties, on account of their intermixture by marriages with... | |
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