Methuselah Baldwin emancipation document : manuscript.

New York, 1801 March 21.

1 item (1 leaf) ; 21 x 22 cm

English

Purchased from William Reese Co. (Swann Galleries sale 2204, 2010 February 25, lot 6) on the Library Associates Fund, 2010.

This material is open for research.

Methuselah Baldwin (-1847) was a Reverend in Orange County, New York.

Manuscript legal document, in an unidentified hand, emancipating two enslaved girls and their mother from Methuselah Baldwin. Document states that the daughters, ages three and one, will be free at age twenty-one; and their mother, who was purchased from Josiah Vail, will be emancipated after paying Baldwin principal and interest. The document also states that Baldwin was the father of the two girls.

May 04, 2021

Methuselah Baldwin Emancipation Document. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Methuselah Baldwin Emancipation Document. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.