Fanny Hickman emancipation act, 1834, 1840

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Fanny Hickman emancipation act, 1834, 1840

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/187303551

This collection contains a photocopy of an "Act of Manumission" freeing Fanny Hickman and her children from slavery in Burke County, Georgia, in 1834. The act is signed by Governor Wilson Lumpkin. The act was filed six years later in 1840 and signed by Governor Charles J. McDonald.

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Georgia Historical Society

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Georgia Historical Society

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Hickman, Fanny.

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Hickman, Paschal.

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Georgia. Governor

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Robert Flournoy (1763-1825) was born in Virginia. He married Mary Willis Cobb in 1794. Flournoy was a Captain in the 1st Georgia regiment of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. A wealthy land owner, he also served in the Georgia Legislature. From the description of Robert Flournoy land grant and plat, 1795. (Georgia Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 157010762 William Beale was a private in the Virginia Continental Line during the Revolutionary War. ...