 | Paul Leicester Ford - Biography & Autobiography - 1896 - 378 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...Negroes are held to manumit them — And whereas among those who will receive freedom according to this devise there may be some who from old age, or bodily... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - 1896 - 376 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...Negroes are held to manumit them — And whereas among those who will receive freedom according to this devise there may be some who from old age, or bodily... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 636 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 emancipate them. And whereas, among those who will receive freedom according to this devise, there... | |
 | 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...which the dower negroes are held, to manumit them And I do, moreover, most pointedly and most solemnly enjoin it upon my executors hereafter named, or the... | |
 | 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...which the dower negroes are held, to manumit them." In like manner, John Randolph — "Randolph of Roanoke" — gave all his slaves their freedom, "heartily... | |
 | 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...negroes are held to manumit them. And whereas, among those who will receive freedom according this device, there may be some, who, from old age, or bodily... | |
 | 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...Negroes are held to manumit them — And whereas among those who will receive freedom according to this devise there may be some who from old age, or bodily... | |
 | 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...which the dower negroes are held to manumit them." The will further provides that all slaves who at the time of their emancipation are unable, by reason... | |
 | 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...Negroes are held, to manumit them. And Whereas, among those who will receive freedom according to this devise, there may be some who from old age or bodily... | |
 | George Washington - 1911 - 84 pages
...at her death, as a matter of course, went to heirs of her husband, John Parke Custis; hence he says, "it not being in my power, under the tenure by which the dower negroes are held, to manumit them." Mrs. Martha Washington, in 1801, manumitted all the slaves she held in her own right. This deed 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. 
