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| First Name | Middle Name | Last Name | Alias | Registration number | Date of registration | Age | Gender | Color | Height- Feet | Height - Inches | Physical description | Free status | Where emancipated | Who emancipated | Previous place of registration | Date of birth | Place of birth | Name of mother | Additional information |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mark | Gowing | 88 | 1821-04-03 | 50 | Male | yellow | 5 | 10.5 | the end of his middle finger on his right hand cut off to the first joint | born free/free born | by occupation a planter & coarse shoemaker | ||||||||
| Natt | Day | 89 | 1821-04-14 | 32 | Male | light dark | 5 | 4 | a small scar over each eye, no other on his face neck or hands perceivable | born free/free born | Lucy Day | by occupation a planter, & shingle gator & coarse shoe maker | |||||||
| Nancy | 90 | 1821-07-25 | 23 | Female | dark | 5 | 3.5 | a number of small bumps in her face, has six fingers on her left hand, & on her right wrist a small dark spot occasioned by a burn | Judah [jr.] | mother emancipated by Lewis Grigg & of record in clerk's office | |||||||||
| John | John Batts | 91 | 1821-07-25 | 25 | Male | black | 5 | 7.5 | his little finger on the right hand crooked, he has several scars on his right arm & one on his left wrist | Judah [jr.] | mother emancipated by Lewis Grigg & of record in clerk's office; by trade a black smith | ||||||||
| Judah | Judah Batts | 92 | 1821-07-25 | 21 | Female | black | 5 | 1.75 | no scars or marks on her head, neck, face or hands perceivable | Judah [jr.] | mother emancipated by Lewis Grigg & of record in clerk's office | ||||||||
| Moses | Thweatt | 93 | 1821-09-04 | 28 | Male | light dark | 5 | 4 | scars on his fore & little finger, on the left hand, a small scar near his right eye & one in his forehead | Hannah Thweatt | mother emancipated by will of David Thweatt, of record in clerk's office; by occupation a planter, ostler | ||||||||
| Ned | Thweatt | 94 | 1821-09-04 | 24 | Male | black | 5 | 2.5 | a scar on his right thumb & forefinger, & a scar on his right cheek, & is cross eyed | Hannah Thweatt | mother emancipated by will of David Thweatt, of record in clerk's office; by occupation a planter & ostler |
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Numbers 90-92: mother is given as Judah followed possibly by "Jr." for junior. A transcript of Lewis Grigg's 1789 deed of emancipation (http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/greensville/deeds/g620l1dd.txt) lists both a Judah senr. (above fifty years of age) and a Judah junr. (about 14 years of age); given the ages, the mother is probably Judah junr.
Numbers 93 & 94: Wills & Estate Records Index on LVA indicates David Thweatt's will was probated in 1789. As Moses and Ned Thweatt were born after that date, the emancipation in these entries refers to their mother Hannah.
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