Know all men by these presents that I Letetia Dill of Murderkill Hundred Kent County in the State of Delaware widow for divers good causes and considerations me hereto moving have and by these presents, doth, manumit Emancipate liberate and Set free a certain Negro man Named Robert the Slave of me the Said Letetia Dill, and I hereby declare the Said Robert to be a free man to all intents and purposes from and after the date of these presents, In Witness whereof I have hereunto Set my hand & affixed my seal the Eighteenth day of December in the year of Our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and one. Letitia Dill {seal}

Sealed and Delivered in the presence of us Mary Beauchamp. Nathl. Smithers

Kent County State of Delaware } Be it remembered that Letetia Dill party to the above manumission personally appeared before me Nathaniel Smithers one of the Justices of the peace for said County and did acknowledge the said manumission as her act and Deed for the uses intents and purposes therein mentioned, In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed my Seal the Eighteenth day of December in the year of Our Lord one thousand Eight Hundred and One. Nathl. Smithers

A true Copy Examined and Compared with the Original the 6th day of August anon Domini 1802 Attest John Caton Recorder

Delaware, U.S., Land Records, 1677-1947, Kent County, Roll: 788, Image 431, Book G, Vol 2, Page 190. Ancestry: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/61025/images/31303_221875-00440?pId=2439215

Transcribed by Nancy Maliwesky