Certificate of Slaves Imported
Evans from Smith Certificate
PWCo Deed Book Z, pg. 150
Prince Wm. County &ct.
Came before me Jas. Smith one of the Justices of the peace for said County Jesse Evans late of Charles County, Maryland and made oath agreeable to law, that he has moved himself and family from Maryland with an intention to settle and become a citizen of Virginia, and that he has brought with him his negroes not with a design to sell and dispose of them, or in any respect to evade the laws of this State made to prevent the importation of Slaves.
That his Negroes are, viz.,
Four Men. Wary, Dick, Charles & Lucus
Three Women. Monimia, Fanny, & Charity
Three Children. Boy. Adam, Boy. Lawrence, Girl. Melia.
Also five slaves the property of John Lomax, an Infant for whom the said Evans is Guardian, and who has also removed with him from Maryland to Virginia, viz.
One Wench. Kett, and four Children. Henry, George, Nace & Cloe.
Given under my hand this twenty third day of December 1794.
James Smith
At a Court cont. & held for Prince Wm. County the 8th day of Aug. 1797.
This certificate of slaves imported by Jesse Evans was presented to the Court & ordered to be recorded.
Teste, John Williams Cl. Cur.
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