 | Charles Sumner - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1900 - 392 pages
...not disagreeable consequences to the latter, while both descriptions are in the occupancy of the same proprietor ; it not being in my power, under the tenure by which the dower negroes are held, to manumit them And I do, moreover, most pointedly and most solemnly enjoin it upon my executors hereafter... | |
 | Law - 1911 - 754 pages
...not disagreeable consequences from the latter, while both descriptions are in occupancy of the same proprietor; it not being in my power, under the tenure by which the dower negroes are held, to manumit them." In like manner, John Randolph — "Randolph of Roanoke" — gave all his slaves their... | |
 | Eugene Parsons - 1903 - 192 pages
...not disagreeable consequences to the latter, while both descriptions are in the occupancy of the same proprietor; it not being in my power, under the tenure by which the dower negroes are held to manumit them. And whereas, among those who will receive freedom according this device, there may be... | |
 | George Washington - United States - 1908 - 694 pages
...an evil exists which requires a remedy; if he has, my intentions have been good, though I prietor, it not being in my power under the tenure by which the dower Negroes are held to manumit them — And whereas among those who will receive freedom according to this devise there may... | |
 | Beverley Bland Munford - History - 1909 - 360 pages
...not disagreeable consequences to the latter, while both descriptions are in the occupancy of the same proprietor; it not being in my power under the tenure by which the dower negroes are held to manumit them." The will further provides that all slaves who at the time of their emancipation are... | |
 | Virgil McClure Harris - Wills - 1911 - 496 pages
...disagreeable consequences from the latter while both descriptions are in the occupancy of the same proprietor ; it not being in my power, under the tenure by which the dower Negroes are held, to manumit them. And Whereas, among those who will receive freedom according to this devise, there may... | |
 | George Washington - 1911 - 84 pages
...not disagreeable consequences from the later while both descriptions are in the occupancy of the same proprietor, it not being in my power under the tenure by which the dower Negroes are held to manumit them And whereas among those who will re-ceive freedom according to this de-vise there may... | |
 | Thomas Roane Barnes Wright - Westmoreland County (Va.) - 1912 - 222 pages
...the latter, while both descriptions are in the occupancy of the same proprietor; it not being in ffTy power under the tenure by which the dower negroes are held to manumit them." The will further provides that all the slaves who at the time of their emancipation... | |
 | Paul Leland Haworth - Mount Vernon (Va. : Estate) - 1915 - 402 pages
...disagreeable consequences from the latter, while both descriptions are in the occupancy of the same proprietor, it not being in my power under the tenure by which the dower Negroes are held to manumit them." The number of his own slaves at the time of his death was one hundred twenty- four.... | |
 | Paul Leland Haworth - Mount Vernon (Va. : Estate) - 1915 - 416 pages
...disagreeable consequences from the latter, while both descriptions are in the occupancy of the same proprietor, it not being in my power under the tenure by which the dower Negroes are held to manumit them." The number of his own slaves at the time of his death was one hundred twenty-four. Of... | |
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... the latter, while both descriptions are in the occupancy of the same proprietor ; it not being in my power, under the tenure by which the dower negroes are held, to manumit them. 
