To all People before whom these presents may come Greeting. Know ye. That I Stewart Redman of Duck Creek Hundred, Kent County in the State of Delaware, having weighed in the scale of Justice the conditions of Slavery, am sencibly convinced, That it is unwarrantable, as well by the laws of Religion as morality and that as God originally distributed equally to the human race, the unalienable right to the enjoyment of Personal liberty, so it behoves each man to restore to his fellow Creatures, that invaluable blessing of which he by unjust & impolitic laws is possessed. In Consideration whereof, I have and do by these presents emancipate; set free and forever discharge from Slavery My negro Woman (named) Sarah Chandler (whom I purchased of Thomas Jamison her freedom to commence on the twelfth day of March Eighteen hundred and three, & also my negro man (named) Jacob Chandler whom I purchased of Robert Jamison I have and do by these presents, Emancipate, set free, & forever discharge from Slavery his Freedom to commence on the fifteenth day of December, which shall be in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred & five. In Testimony whereof I have unto these presents set my hand & Seal this fifteenth day of December 1800. Stewart Redman {seal}

Test Abraham Redgrave. Benjamin Blackiston, Jun.

The State of Delaware Kent County } Duck Creek X Roads December the fifteenth day Eighteen Hundred Personally appeared the Rev. Stewart Redman before me one of the Justices of the peace in and for said County and Acknowledged the within Instrument to be his Act and deed, and the negroes there mentioned named Sarah Chandler and Jacob Chandler, to be Liberated and free at the time therein Expressed given under my hand & Seal the day & year above Written. John Cole

A True Copy Attest Abraham Ridgely Recorder

Delaware, U.S., Land Records, 1677-1947, Kent County, Roll: 788, Image 256, Book G, Vol 2, Page 17. Ancestry: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/61025/images/31303_221875-00255?pId=2438629

Transcribed 12 Sep 2024 by Nancy Maliwesky