Filed in Book 54 at Page 255 of the deed records of Mason County, KY Know all men by these presents that for and in consideration of ____ hundred dollars to me in hand paid, I have this day emancipated and set free and do hereby emancipate and set free the negro slave Edmund and do hereby covenant and agree to and with the said Edmund to warrant and defend the liberty hereby granted to him against the claim or claims of all persons claiming from, by, through or under him and against the claims of all persons whomsoever. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 14th day of April 1845. R. T. Blanchard The following recorded June 16, 1845: Mason County, KY April Court 1845 Deed of emancipation from Robert T. Blanchard to Edmund Middleton was produced in open Court and acknowledged by the said Robert T. Blanchard to be his act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned. And the same is ordered to be recorded. And the said Edmund Middleton, being in open court, is five feet seven inches high, dark complexion and upwards of thirty years of age. Whereupon the said Robert T. Blanchard executed and acknowledged in open court a bond for the support of said Edmund Middleton with Thomas Forman as his security in the penalty of five hundred dollars conditioned as the law requires. Attest: John James Key, Clk