Manuscript document signed by Antony Alexis Garard. Millersburg, Bourbon County, Kentucky, 23 April 1820. 1 page, folio. Docketing and attestations dated 22 May 1841 and 3 October 1842 to verso. 

An 1820 Kentucky deed of manumission drafted for an enslaved girl named Glowinia. Her enslaver, Mark Antony Alexis Garard, specified that he "give to John Vimont, a negro girl known by the name of Glowinia, one years old or about, give her in indenture for twenty years, at that epoch it is to say when the said Glowinia will have twenty one years, the said Glowenia shall become free to all intents, and, fix the day of her manumission to the fourth July, one thousand eight hundred forty one." 

As specified by the document, the attestations to the verso signed by John Vimont and Lewis Vimont indicate that she was "let her at liberty" on 22 May 1841. 

A rare manumission document. 

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