The Virginia Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (SAR) with the James Monroe Chapter will host a freedom ceremony at 2 p.m. Sunday, September 22, at the historic marker near the Old Courthouse in Heathsville.
On September 5, 1791, Robert Carter III of Nomini Hall in Westmoreland County filed a Deed of Gift at the Northumberland County Courthouse in Heathsville. This deed eventually freed more than 500 enslaved people owned by….
