Know all men by these presents that I Major Selby for divers good Causes & Considerations me hereunto moving doth hereby manumit Emancipate liberate and set free and by these presents hath manumitted liberated Emancipated and set free a Certain Negro slave named Jacob the property of me the said Major Selby at the expiration of Ten years from the date of these presents, hereby reserving to myself my Heirs Executors administrators & assigns the service and labour of the said Negroe Jacob for and during the term of ten years next ensuing at the expiration of which said Term I hereby declare the said Negro Jacob a free man to all intents and purposes. In Witness whereof I have hereto set my Hand and affixed my seal the sixteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one Thousand Eight hundred & one. Major Selby {seal}

Sealed & delivred in presence of Nathl Smithers Kendall Smack 

Kent County State of Delaware } I hereby Certify that Major Selby personally appeared before me Nathl. Smithers one of the Justices of the Peace for said County and did acknowledge the foregoing manumission as his act & deed for the uses intents and purposes therein mentioned In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my Seal the Sixteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one Thousand eight hundred & one. Nathl Smithers

A True Copy Attest Abraham Ridgely Recr.

Delaware, U.S., Land Records, 1677-1947, Kent County, Roll: 788, Image 294, Book G, Vol 2, Page 53. Ancestry: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/61025/images/31303_221875-00293?pId=2438666

Transcribed 12 Sep 2024 by Nancy Maliwesky