State of Delaware Kent County Sst To all to whom these presents shall come Greeting I, William Scarborough of accomack County in the State of Virginia for divers good Causes and Considerations me thereunto moving do hereby Declare Free Manumit and enfranchise the Negro following to wit Caleb Hereby acknowledgeing the said Negro Discharged from all Claim of Service & Right of property whatever from me my Heirs Executors or administrators, as Witness my Hand & Seal this third day of June in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven hundred and ninety seven. the name Caleb interlined before sealing. Wm Scarbarough {seal}

Test John Pemberton. Jacob Stout’

Kent County Sst.  On the third day of June in the year of our Lord 1797 Personally appeared Before me the Subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace for the County aforesaid William Scarborough party to the within instrument of writing who acknowledged the said instrument to be his act and deed and the signature and Seal thereto annexed to be respectively his. Geo. McCall

A True copy test Simon Wilmer Wilson Recorder.

Delaware, U.S., Land Records, 1677-1947, Kent County, Roll: 787, Image 566, Book E, Vol 2, Page 280.  Ancestry: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/61025/images/31303_221874-00565?pId=2437486

Transcribed 17 Sep 2024 by Nancy Maliwesky