Sussex County State of Delaware To all to whom it may or doth concern Know ye that I Thomas Laws of the County and State afsd. for divers good causes and Considerations me hereunto moving have liberated, manumitted, and set free my Negro man John (Commonly called Jack) to be free from the day of the date of these presents, to have and enjoy all the Privileges that free Negroes and Mulattoes are enitled to in this State; In Witness whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and seal this twelfth day of February Anno Domini Eighteen hundred and Eleven. Tho. Laws {seal}

In presents of Francis Brown Panter Laws. 

Sussex County State of Delaware On the 12th day of February 1811. Before me John Handy one of the Justices of the peace for the County afsd. persoally appeared the above named Thomas Laws and Acknowledged the above written Manumation to be his act and Deed, In Testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand the day and year above written. John Handy

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