Manumission from Wm Warner to Hester Sutten & Elice Hone

Know all men by these presents that I William Warner of Kent County in the State of Delaware Esquire for divers Good Causes & Consideration me hereunto moving  hath and by these presents doth manumit emancipate Liberate and set free and at full liberty two female negroes the Slaves of me the said William Warner the one named Hester Sutten the other Alice Hone, and I hereby declare that from And after the date of these presents that the said Negroes Hester an Alice shall be deemed and considered as free woman and shall be capable of enjoying all the rights and priveledges that free negroes or mulattoes may or an enjoy by the laws of the said State of Delaware In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal the twenty second day of August in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred fourteen William Warner {seal}

Sealed and delivered in the presence of us Nathaniel Smithers. Saml Mifflin

Kent County SS  Be it remembered that that on the twenty second day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fourteen the above named William Warner Esquire appeared before me Nathaniel Smithers one Of the Justices of the peace of the State of Delaware for Kent County and did acknowledge the above manumission as his act and deed for the uses and purposes therein mentioned In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my seal the day and year above written. Nathl Smithers

A True Copy Recorded and compared with the original this second day of August Anno Domini 1814. Attest John W Boyer Recr

Delaware, U.S., Land Records, 1677-1947, Kent County, Roll 792, Image 167, Book P, Vol 2, page 55

Transcribed 20 Apr 2024 by Nancy Maliwesky