William Jones was an enslaved man owned by Ulysses S. Grant for a period of time

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(06-25-2020 01:07 PM)David Lockmiller Wrote:  William Jones was an enslaved man owned by Ulysses S. Grant for a period of time in the late 1850s. On March 29, 1859, Grant went to the St. Louis Courthouse and wrote a manumission paper legally freeing Jones from slavery. Jones is the last enslaved person to have been owned by a U.S. President.

Here is the manumission of William Jones written in Ulysses S. Grant’s handwriting. Source: Missouri Historical Society