Manumission Negro Caleb Jenkins from Moses Ratledge

To all persons to whom these presents shall come greeting, Know ye that for divers good causes and considerations me thereunto moving moving I Moses Ratledge do hereby declare free manumit and Enfranchise Negro Caleb Jenkins hereby declaring the said Negro Caleb Jenkins free and discharged from and after the date hereof from all clam of service & Right of property whatsoever from me my heirs Executors administrators and assigns in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this seventh day of May 1805.

Moses Ratledge {seal}

Witness Corns. Battell, James Clark,

State of Delaware Kent County Sst } I do certify that Moses Ratledge appeared before me John Lowber one of the Justices of the peace for said County, the seventh day of May one thousand eight hundred and five, and acknowledged, the within Manumetion, John Lowber

A True Copy Recorded examined and compared with the Original this 8th day of May 1805. Attest William P. Russel Recorder

Delaware, U.S., Land Records, 1677-1947, Kent County, Roll: 789, Image 278, Book I, Vol 2, Page 106

Transcribed 23 Jun 2024 by Nancy Maliwesky