It is my desire and last Will that if it should Please God to take me from this world, that my Female Slave Called Merrcy or Merian be and she is hereby declared to be entitled to her Freedom and I do hereby absolutely and fully emancipate liberate and declare her to be free within Month after my Decease from that time to be fully at her own disposal as Testified this Eleventh day of November in the year of our Lord 1789. and Sealed and Signed in my Name and in my behalf by John Vining. Garrett Wharton {seal}

In presents of John Bell Jr. John F. Battell  James MClyment

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Delaware, U.S., Land Records, 1677-1947, Kent County, Roll 785, Image 619, Book A, Vol 2, Page 193. Ancestry: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/61025/images/31303_221872-00618?pId=2435125

Transcribed 2 Oct 2024 by Nancy Maliwesky