Manumission Negro Cato and others from George Kennard.

A list of Forty negroes purchased of Benjamin Chew esquire with their names and supposed ages on the first day of January last, and whose time of servitude annexed thereto commences on the said first day of January one thousand Eight hundred & three.

Cato aged 43 To serve Three years. David aged 1 To serve Twenty seven years. Dick aged 36 To serve Five years. James aged 1 To serve Twenty seven years. Enos aged 34 To serve Five years, Beck of Nan aged 15 To serve Nine years. James aged 25 To serve Seven years. Beck of Pris aged 14 To serve Ten years.

Aaron aged 23 To serve Nine years. Phin aged 13 To serve Eleven years. Yarm aged 21 To serve Ten years. Hannah aged 12 To serve Twelve years. Jane Santer aged 25 To serve Five years Dolly aged 10 To serve Fourteen years. Sarah or little Sal aged 25 To serve Five years. Grace aged 10 To serve Fourteen years.

Lucy aged 20 To serve Six years. Rachel aged 9 To serve Fifteen years. Sukey aged 18 To serve Seven years. Hagar aged 9 To serve Fifteen years. Molly aged 18 To serve Seven years. Abitha aged 8 To serve Sixteen years. Ben aged 11 To serve Fifteen years. Phillis aged 8 To serve Sixteen years.

Stephen aged 9 To serve Seventeen years. Lish of Lucey aged 7 To serve Eighteen years. Jacob aged 7 To serve Nineteen years. Laticia of Sal aged 5 To serve Twenty years. Bill aged 6 To serve Twenty one years. Silvia aged 4 To serve Twenty one years. Bob aged 6 To serve Twenty one years. Lidia aged 5 To serve Twenty years.

Charles aged 5 To serve Twenty two years. Jane aged 4 To serve Twenty one years. Harry aged 4 To serve Twenty four years. Sukey aged 2 To serve Twenty four years. Tom aged 3 To serve Twenty five years. Margaret aged 1 To serve Twenty four years. Sam aged 2 To serve Twenty six years. Susan aged 1 To serve Twenty four years.

And I do hereby acknowledge and declare, that as soon as the aforementioned time of servitude annexed to each several name respectively shall be fully ended and expired, that the said negroes shall be free from me, and all persons claiming from or under me, as Witness my hand and seal this Fifteenth day of February 1803.

Geo. Kennard {seal}

Witness George Cummins, John Cummins,

Kent County, November 10, 1803. } Personally came George Kennard before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace and for this County and acknowledged the above Manumation as above State according to Law in year of our Lord Anno Domini 1803. Before me Jno. Ringgold

A True Copy Recorded and compared with the Original this 12th day of May Anno Domini 1808. Attest William P. Russel. Recr.

Delaware, U.S., Land Recods, 1677-1947, Kent County, Roll 790, Image 197, Book K, Vol 2, Page 239

Transcribed 23 May 2024 by Nancy Maliwesky