To all persons to whom these presents shall come, Greeting: Know ye, that for divers good causes and considerations me thereunto moving I John Wiltbank, do, hereby declare free, manumit and enfranchise Negro Hess or Hester Sanders hereby declaring the said Negro Hess or Hester Sanders free, & discharged from and after the date hereof, from all claim of service & right of property whatever from me, my heirs executors administrators & assigns: In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this twenty second day of march Anno Domini 1803. John Wiltbank {seal}

Witnesses – Richard Harrington, Abraham Ridgely.

State of Delaware Kent County } Ss. Personally appeared before me the Subscriber one of the Justices of the peace in & for the county afsd. John Wiltbank party to the above instrument of writing, who acknowledged the same to be his act and deed & the signature & seal thereto Affixed to be respectively his. In witness whereof I have have hereto put my hand this 22d day of march 1803. Abraham Ridgely

A True copy attest John Caton Recorder April 8th 1803.

Delaware, U.S., Land Records, 1677-1947, Kent County, Roll: 788, Image 506, Book G, Vol 2, Page 265. Ancestry: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/61025/images/31303_221875-00505

Transcribed 8 Sep 2024 by Nancy Maliwesky