I hereby emancipate, and set free, a Negro woman named Taney Colsey, and her Child John, who I bought at Sheriff’s sale as the property of William Charles Neil, at the Suit of Charles Ryan – as witness my Hand this fourteenth day of June 1799. J. Jones

State of Delaware Kent County } Ss. I do hereby Certify That on the Sixteenth day of April One thousand eight Hundred, Personally appeared Dr. Jacob Jones, and acknowledged the above emancipation to be his act and deed, for the use and purpose therein mentioned. Before John Lowber

A True Copy Attest Simon W. Wilson Recorder.

Delaware, U.S., Land Records, 1677-1947, Kent County, Roll: 788, Image 170, Book F, Vol 2, Page 239. Ancestry: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/61025/images/31303_221875-00169?pId=2438318

Transcribed 13 Sep 2024 by Nancy Maliwesky