Title: Deed of Manumission by Charlton Hines
Georgia, Liberty County } Having for good and sufficient reasons felt it to be my duty, I have permitted a mulatto woman by the name of Harriet Golden to enjoy, as far as the laws of this State would allow, all the privileges of freedom. And it is now my wish, and I hereby declare it to be my will, that after my death my Executors take an oversight of her, and make such arrangements as may be necessary to enable her to continue to enjoy freedom. And they are farther requested to act as Guardians for and protectors to her.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this the twenty third day of May, in the Year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty one.
Signed, sealed, delivered and published in the presence of us the subscribing witnesses, this the 23d day of May 1864. [SIC: should have been 1861]
[Signed] C. Hines
[Witnesses]
S.A. Fraser
J.H. Alexander
S.A. Calder
Recorded March 24th, 1864
W.P. Girardeau O.L.C.
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