MARGARET and SON, JOHN ISAAC WASHINGTON

Lauderdale County, AL
Deed Book 7, pp. 394-395.

Thompson & Wife to Margaret & Son, Negroes

Know all men by these presents that we Joseph Thompson and Mary Elizabeth Thompson his wife Son in law and daughter of Samuel Maverick of Anderson district State of South Carolina  as being desereous [sic] of forwarding the views of the Said Samuel Maverick in emancipating Two of his Slaves and understanding that the Said Samuel Maverick has already written Signed and delivered a free paper emancipating the Said two Slaves one of whom is a coloured woman named Margaret and the other her Son John Isaac Washington a coloured boy about Twelve years of age And further being informed that the Said Samuel Maverick has or intends to order in his will or in Some other way that the aforesaid woman and her Son and their issue shall be free they and their heirs forever from the claims of all persons other heirs forever from the claims of all persons whomsoever whether Such issue Shall be by marriage or not ‑‑‑ now be it known that we the aforesaid Joseph Thompson and Mary Elizabeth Thompson for an in consideration of our love and affection towards the Said Samuel Maverick and for divers good causes and full consideration do by these presents bind ourselves our heirs Executors and administrators to quit all claims that we or they or any other persons or persons claiming under as or either of us have or may have at the time or at the time of the death of the said Samuel Maverick or at any other time or may whatever to the Said Two people of Colour or to their children or decendants (whether by marriage or not) and their heirs forever and we do hereby bind ourselves and our heirs Executors and administrators to use every means to protect and defend the Said people of Colour and their descendants in their personal freedoms and in the quiet employment of their Lands property and estates in every way whatever to them and to their heirs Executors administrators and assigns forever in every way whatever In witness whereof we have hereunto Set our hands and Seals in      [blank]        county and Sate of Alabama this fourth day of November A D 1837

Sealed and delivered in     }                                         Jos. Thompson        {SEAL}
presence of                        }                                          Mary E. Thompson {SEAL}
Richard T Nowell               }
Joseph B. Thompson         }

The State of Alabama      } SS Personally appeared before me
Lauderdale County          } John T. Harraway  Judge of the County court of the aforesaid county Richard Noel Joseph B Thompson  the Two Subscribing witnesses to the foregoing who being first duly Sworn deposeth & Saith that they Saw the above named Joseph Thompson and Mary Thompson whose name is assigned thereto Sign Seal and delever [sic] the Same to the Said Slaves herein mentioned that they these deponents Subscribed their names as witness thereto in the presence of Joseph Thompson and Mary Thompson and in the presence of each other on the day and year thereso named Given under my hand and Seal at my office in Florence this 5^th December 1837

                                                                John T Harraway     Judge of
Recorded Decr 9^th 1837                          Lauderdale County Court