Free Negro Bond for Griffin
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Free Negro Bond for Griffin. 1846, St. Louis Circuit Court Historical Records Project, accessed October 8, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.washu.edu/s/ccr/item/61181
- Title
- Free Negro Bond for Griffin
- Date
- May 1, 1846
- Identifier
- fre0192.1846.000
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- Public Domain
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# Free Negro Bond for Griffin
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To all whom it may concern, be it hereby
made known, that I Thomas J. Mason of the County
of St. Louis and State of Missouri, for divers good causes
and considerations me thereunto moving, and also in further
consideration of one dollar current money to me in hand,
the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, have released
from Slavery, liberated and manumitted and set free,
and by these presents do hereby release from Slavery,
liberate, manumit and set free my negro Boy, named
Martin Griffin, being of the age of thirty five Years,
and able to work and gain a sufficient livelihood
and maintenance; and him the said Negro Boy named
Martin Griffin, I do declare to be henceforth free, man-
-umitted and discharged from all manner of Servitude
and Service to me, my executors or administrators for-
-ever. In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and seal this 29th April Eighteen hundred
and forty six.
Signed sealed and delivered in presence of
Robert M. Hannah
Jacob Cooper Thomas J. Mason Seal
In the Saint Louis Circuit Court April Term 1846.
Thirsday April 30th 1846.
State of Missouri SS.
County of St. Louis
Be it remembered that on this Thirtieth
day of April Eighteen hundred and forty six, in open
Court personally appeared Robert M. Hanna and Jacob
Cooper two credible witnesses who being duly examined
upon oath prove the execution of the within Deed of
Emancipation from Thomas J. Mason to Martin Grif-
-fin, which said proof of acknowledgement is entered
of the Record of the Court of that day. Seal In
Testimony Whereof I John Ruland Clerk of said Court
have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Offive in the City of St. Louis the day
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& Year above written Jn. Ruland Clk.
State of Missouri SS.
County of St. Louis
I John Ruland Clerk of the
circuit court within and for the County aforesaid Certify
the foregoing to be a true and Correct Copy of a Deed
of Emancipation from Thomas J. Mason to Martin
Girffin as fully as the same remains on file in my
Office.
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said
Court at Office in the City of Saint Louis
this first day of May in the Year of our
Lord one thousand Eight hundred and
forty six. Jn. Ruland Clerk.
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Thomas J. Mason
To
Martin Griffin
Copy of Bond of Emancipation
5.3 35 yrs
[ ?] Fee $1.80⁄100 Paid
Free Negro Bond for Griffin. 1846, St. Louis Circuit Court Historical Records Project, accessed October 8, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.washu.edu/s/ccr/item/61181