Washington District of Columbia


William Allison Manumission
Furnished by : John Sharp

 

 
 

			Registration No. 173
			(Vol. 1 pages 189-190) 


Recording 		)	Deed of Manumission 
Ja Owner  Thomas 	)	Recorded 19 April 1825
Lyndall & Thos Howard 	) 


Wm Allison 

	To all whom it may concern, be it known that we James Owner, Thos Lyndall & 
Thomas Howard of the County of Washington in the District of Columbia for good and 
diverse causes and considerations us three unto moving as also in further considerations 
of the sum of one two hundred dollars current money to us in hand  paid have released 
from Slavery, liberated, manumitted and set free, and by these presents do hereby release 
from Slavery, liberate manumit and set free one negro man named William Allison being 
of age of 44 years and able to work and gain sufficient livelihood and maintenance, and  
him the said negro man named William Allison we do declare to be henceforth free  we 
manumitted and discharged from all manner of servitude or service to us or to either of us 
or to either of our co executors or administrators for ever - In testimony whereof we have 
herewith set our hand and seals this twelve day of April anno-domini  -1825.{ Signed 
sealed and delivered in the presence of us }
Thos Murray 			  	   }	Ja Owner 
                                           }    Thos Lyndall
	 	                           }    Thos Howard 

Washington County District of Columbia, Received this twelve day of April 1825 
the sum of $ 200 amount of money it being the full consideration money above mentioned 

					       Ja Owner 
                                               Thos Lyndall
	 		                       Thos Howard
 
William Allison is enumerated on the 1850 Census for the District of Columbia as Wm Allison, a free Blackman, age 50, his spouse B. Allison age 50, and one child, Wm Smith, age 6 ( a grandson?). The Allison's live in the 5th Ward. No occupation is given for Wm. Allison.

Information on William Alllison, is very scarce, Allison may have worked at the Washington Navy Yard, but his name is not found on any of the early Yard rolls of which only a few survive. That such a conjecture is probable is based on the documents relating to two of his masters James Owner, Master Shipwright and Thomas Howard, Clerk of the Yard both of whom owned other slaves whom they leased to the Washington Navy Yard. It is possible that William Allison was able to buy his freedom from his masters as such practice was relatively common in antebellum Washington.

On the leasing of slaves to the Washington Navy Yard and slaves buying their own freedom see :
The Diary of Michael Shiner
For a transcription of the Last Will and Testament of Thomas Howard (1779 -1832 and biography) see :
http://www.genealogytrails.com/washdc/howard_will.html

James Owner is mentioned on a number of entries in the Diary of Michael Shiner

For WNY Master Joiner Thomas Lyndall see the Apprentice Indenture of John Goss dated 2 May 1825. http://www.genealogytrails.com/washdc/apprentice.html

 

 

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