Autograph document signed by Percival Pierce Butler. Gallatin County, [Kentucky] September 1800. 1 page, folio, 7 1/2 x 12 5/8 in. Docketed to verso. 

An early Kentucky manumission document where a man named Henry Stafford recorded and signed that he "emancipated and set free my  Negroe slave George." Notably, the emancipation is attested by Percival P. Butler who was a Colonel who served under George Washington during the Revolutionary War and was present at Valley Forge. He has also signed below that the manumission has been recorded by the county. 

Butler was Kentucky's first adjutant general under Governor Isaac Shelby. He would serve in the army again during the War of 1812 serving in the staff of Maj. Gen. Samuel Hopkins.   

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