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C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section Fifth: Senatorial career. (search)
ion, and possesses a local interest in this community. It is a deed of manumission, made after our struggles had begun, and preserved in the Probate records of the County of Suffolk. Here it is: Know all men by these presents, that I, Jonathan Jackson, of Newburyport, in the county of Essex, gentleman, in consideration of the impropriety I feel, and have long felt, in beholding any person in constant bondage—more especially at a time when my country is so warmly contending for the libertyhereby liberate, manumit, and set him free; and I do hereby remise and release unto said Pomp, all demands of whatever nature I have against said Pomp. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this nineteenth June, 1776. Jonathan Jackson. [Seal.] Witness, Mary Coburn, William Noyes. Such was the general spirit. Public opinion found free vent in every channel. By the literature of the time—by the voice of the Church, and by the solemn judgment of the College, Slavery w
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Xxxvii. (search)
ion, and possesses a local interest in this community. It is a deed of manumission, made after our struggles had begun, and preserved in the Probate records of the County of Suffolk. Here it is: Know all men by these presents, that I, Jonathan Jackson, of Newburyport, in the county of Essex, gentleman, in consideration of the impropriety I feel, and have long felt, in beholding any person in constant bondage—more especially at a time when my country is so warmly contending for the libertyhereby liberate, manumit, and set him free; and I do hereby remise and release unto said Pomp, all demands of whatever nature I have against said Pomp. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this nineteenth June, 1776. Jonathan Jackson. [Seal.] Witness, Mary Coburn, William Noyes. Such was the general spirit. Public opinion found free vent in every channel. By the literature of the time—by the voice of the Church, and by the solemn judgment of the College, Slavery w