Be it Remember’d that I James Whitacre do this day Manumitt and sett free William Salsbyry is Negro man now living with me to be Free on the twenty fifth day of the twelfth month one Thousand Eight Hundred, Witness my hand and  Seal this 28th day of the 12th mo. 1798. James Whitaker {seal}

Witness present Isaiah Rowland. Thomas Coxe

The State of Delaware Kent County } Ss Personally Appear’d Isaiah Rowland before me one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County and on his Solemn Affirmation saith that he was Personally Present with James Whitacer the within Grantor, and seed him the said James, Sign Seal and Deliver the the within Instrament and Pronounce the said William Saulsbury free at the within mentioned Period Given under my hand and seal this Third day of Septr. Eighteen hundred and one.

John Cole {seal}

Delaware, U.S., Land Records, 1677-1947, Kent County, Roll: 788, Image 338, Book G, Vol 2, Page 98. Ancestry: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/61025/images/31303_221875-00337?pId=2438795

Transcribed 11 Sep 2024 by Nancy Maliwesky