State of Delaware Kent County } Ss To all Persons to whom these Presents Shall come, greeting Know ye, that for diverse good causes & Considerations me thereunto moveing I Thomas Bell Preacher of the Gospel, of the State & County afsd. Do hereby duth free, manumit & enfranchise the Negro following Viz. Rachel hereby declaring the said Negro from & after the first Day of April in the Year one Thousand Eight hundred & six, discharged from all right of Property & Claim of service from me my Heirs Executors & administrators. As witness my Hand & Seal this twenty fourth Day of September one thousand eight Hundred & one. Thos. Bell {seal}

Witnesses Elizabeth Wittback. Abraham Ridgely.

State of Delaware Kent County } Ss. Personally appeared Thomas Bell Preacher of the gospel before me the Subscriber one of the Justices of the peace for the County afsd. & acknow[ledg]ed the above instrument of writing to be his Act & Deed & the signature & Seal thereto annexed to be respectively his. I Witness my Hand & Seal this 24 Day of September 1801. Abraham Ridgely {seal}

A True Copy Attest: Abraham Ridgely. Recorder.

Delaware, U.S., Land Records, 1677-1947, Kent County, Roll: 788, Image 344, Book G, Vol 2, Page 103. Ancestry: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/61025/images/31303_221875-00343?pId=2438836

Transcribed 11 Sep 2024 by Nancy Maliwesky