Emancipation Story 1822

Subject of Research: Emancipation Story 1822
Story: Hannah Burk registered as free: “I Edmund I. Lee, Clerk of the United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, for the County aforesaid, Do hereby certify that Hannah Burk, a black girl, five feet four inches high, (who obtained her freedom by a suit in the Fairfax County Court against William P. Richardson as will more fully appear, by reference to the preceding paper) has this day been registered in my office agreeably to law,—
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and offered the seal of the said Court this eight day of June eighteen hundred and twenty two."
Edm: I. Lee, CC.
(Examined)
People: Hannah Burk, a black girl
Place: Circuit Court of the District of Columbia; Fairfax County Court
Source: “Free Negro and Slave Records,” Library of Virginia, Reel 62;