To all people before whom these presents may come greeting Know ye that I Jacob Pennington of Duck Creek Hundred Kent County in the State of Delaware having weighed in the Scale of Justice the Condition of Slavery am siciable convinced that it is unwarrentable as well by the Laws of Religion as morality, and that as god originally destributed equally to the Human Race the Unalienable Right to the enjoyment of personal liberty, so it behoves each man to return to his fellow creature that invaluable blessing of which he by unjust & impolitic laws is possessed. In Consideration whereof I have and do by these presents emancipate sett free and forever discharge from Slavery my negro Girl named Elizabeth to be free at the age of twenty one years which will be in the year one thousand Eight hundred & Six. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my Hand & seal this ninteenth day of June one thousand Eight hundred & one, Jacob Pennington {seal}

signed & sealed in the presence of Abm Redgrave

The State of Delaware Kent County } Eighteen Hundred and one Personally appeared Jacob Pennington the within Grantor, before me one of the Justices of the Peace and acknowledged the within Instrument to be his act & deed and the within named Elizabeth to Liberated and free, at the period of time within mentioned.. John Cole

A True Copy Attest

Delaware, U.S., Land Records, 1677-1947, Kent County, Roll: 788; Image 318, Book G, Vol 2, Page 99. Ancestry: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/61025/images/31303_221875-00317?pId=2438758

Transcribed 11 Sep 2024 by Nancy Maliwesky