Kent County State of Delaware

To All persons, to whom these presents shall come greeting, Know ye that I John Durborough do hereby Manumit and discharge one Negro boy Named William and one Girl Lucy and another Girl Elenor at the times and in the manner following to wit, the boy William At and upon the first day of August which will be in the year Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Ten, and the girl Lucy, at and upon the first day of January Eighteen Hundred and three and the girl Elenor at and upon the first day of January Eighteen Hundred and Eleven all of which persons faithfully serving until the Expiration of the said times to be discharged from me and my Heirs or assigns forever and to enjoy the previledges of Free Negroes in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal this seventeenth day of January Eight Hundred and one. John Durborough {seal}

Witness Benoni Harris & Abraham Ridgely

State of Delaware Kent County } Personally appeared John Durborough before me the Subscriber one of the Justices to keep the peace in and for the County aforesaid and acknowledged the above Instrument of writing to be his act and Deed and the signature and seal thereto annexed to be respectively his and delivered for the uses and purposes therein mentioned as Witness my hand This eighteenth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight Hundred and one. Abraham Ridgely

A true Copy Attest

Delaware, U.S., Land Records, 1677-1947, Kent County, Roll: 788, Image 224, Book F, Vol 2, Page 294. Ancestry: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/61025/images/31303_221875-00223?pId=2438504

Transcribed 12 Sep 2024 by Nancy Maliwesky