This may Certify whom it may concern that I Robert Cook of Kent County and State of Delaware physician, do hereby manumit and set free a negro girl named Eliza (whom I bought of Isaac Davis adm. Of Edwd Rees dec’d.) when she arrives to the age of twenty one years her time or term commencing from the 27th nov an. Dom. eighteen hundred & one (she being then two years old) and ending the 27th nov an. Dom. eighteen hundred & twenty and that after the expiration of the afsd. Term or time, she shall be deemed a free woman, without any let or claim from myself, and every other person claiming by, from or under me as witness my hand and seal this eighteenth day of nov. ann. dom: one thousand eight hundred & two. Robert Cook {seal}

Sig’d Sld & del’d in presence of Hugh Torbert, Charles Nabb.

Kent County State of Delaware } Be it remembered that on the 10th of nov in the year 1802 before me Abraham Pierce one of the justices of the peace for the sd. County & state personally Appeared doctr. Robert Cook the master of sd. negro girl Eliza who acknowledged the within [instru]me[n]t delivering that the same may be recorded as such as witness my hand the date above [writ]ten. Abraham Pierce

A true copy Attest John Caton Recorder November 25th 1802

Delaware, U.S., Land Records, 1677-1947, Kent County, Roll: 788, Image 454. Book G, Vol 2, Page 214. Ancestry: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/61025/images/31303_221875-00453?pId=2439239

Transcribed 9 Sep 2024 by Nancy Maliwesky