Manumission Case Wright & others from Jesse Farlow.

To all persons to whom these presents shall come Greeting: Know ye, that for divers good causes & considerations me thereunto moving, I do hereby declare free, Manumit & enfranchise the following Negroes, from and after the time hereafter mentioned, To wit, Case Wright on the Fifteenth day of March in the year Eighteen hundred & twelve; Rose on the third day of October Eighteen hundred & twenty seven; June on the twenty first day of March Eighteen hundred & thirty; George Wright on the fifth day of March Eighteen hundred & thirty three; hereby declaring the said Negroes from & after the above mentioned times discharged from all claim of service & right of property, from me & all & every person claiming from or under me. Witness my hand & seal this second day of May Anno Domini Eighteen hundred & eight.

Signed sealed & delivered } Jesse Farlow {seal}

In the presence of us }

P. Spruance Jr. William Farson, 

State of Delaware } Personally appeared Jesse Farlow before me the Kent County Ss.    }subscriber one of the Justices for said County & acknowledged the above instrument of writing to be his act & Deed & the signature & seal thereto annexed to be respectively his. Witness my hand this third day of May A Domini 1808.

Abraham Ridgely

A True Copy Recorded and compared with the Original this 30th day of May

Anno Domini 1808. Attest William P. Russel Recr.

Delaware, U.S. Land Records, 1677-1947, Kent County, Roll 790, Image 212, Book K, Vol 2, Page 255

Transcribed 22 May 2024 by Nancy Maliwesky