State of Delaware Kent County Sst.  Personally appeared before me James Millechop one of the Justices of the peace in & for the said County, Thomas Abbott of Sussex County State Afsd aged about thirty three years and being in due manner sworn doth depose and say That the bearer here of Jonathan Draper Negro aged about nineteen years about five feet nine inches high yellowish Complection with a scar above his right Eye occasioned by a hurt when he was a Child, midling slender and striaght built was born  the property of his mother who give him the Said Jonathan to his own mother when he was an infant & hath never since laid any Claim to him and that the said Jonathan is perfectly free from all persons to to his certain knowledge, he the said Deponant having known him ever since his birth. And further the Said Deponant Saith not. Thomas Abbott

Taken & Subscribed before me the said Justice at my office in Milford this 10th May 1817.  J W. Millechop

State of Delaware Kent County Sst.  Be it Remembered that the above  named and described Negro is perfectly free and entitled to all the liberties and privileges granted by law to free negroes and free mulattoes and at Liberty to pass and repass to & from without hindrance or Molestation. In Testimony Where of I have set my hand & seal this 10 day of May A.D. 1817. J??? Millechop one of the Justices of the peace in & for the Said County

A true copy recorded and Compared with the original this 29th day of May A.D. 1817. Attest John W. Many Recr.

Delaware, U.S., Land Records, 1677-1947, Kent County, Roll 793, Image 234, Book R, Vol 2, Page 211. Ancestry: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/61025/images/31303_221880-00233?pId=2443121

Transcribed 22 May 2024 by Nancy Maliwesky