Know all men by these presents that I Robert Cook of Kent County and State of Delaware physician, do by these presents manumit and forever set free a negro woman named Hanah (whom I bought of Isaac Davis admr. Of Edward Rees dec’d) after she has served me, my heirs exectrs. or assigns for the term or time of five years commencing from the seventh day of novr. an. dom: one thousand eight hundred and one and ending the seventh novr. one thousand eight hundred & sex 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 person claiming by from or under me as witness my hand & seal this eighteenth day of November an dom one Thousand ^eight hundred & two. 1802 Robt Cook {seal}

Sign’d Seal’d & del’d in the presence of Charles Nabb. Hugh Torbert.

Kent County State of Delaware } Be it remembered that on the 18th day of novr. 1802 before me the subscriber one of the justices of the peace in & for sd. County personally appeared Doct Robt. Cook master of negro woman named Hannah who acknowledged the within to be his act desiring that the same may be recorded as such as witness my hand the date above written. Abraham Pierce

A true Copy attest John Caton Recorder November 25th 1802

Delaware, U.S., Land Records, 1677-1947, Kent County, Roll: 788, Image 453, Book G, Vol 2, Page 212. Ancestry: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/61025/images/31303_221875-00452?pId=2439223

Transcribed 8 Sep 2024 by Nancy Maliwesky