State of Delaware Kent County Be it Remembered that I Mary Jarrell of Murderkill hundred Kent County in the State aforesaid for divers good Causes and Considerations me thereto Moving Have Manumitted Emancipated Liberated and set free a Certain Negro Girl the Slave of Me the Said Mary Jarrell by the Name of Ann Reserving to myself my heirs Executors administrators or assigns the Service and Labour of the Said Negro Ann for twelve years Nine months and Twelve days Next Ensuing from the day of the date hereof or untill She the said Negro Ann Shall arrive to the age of Twenty Eight years old She Being at this time fifteen years two Months and Eighteen days old But if she the said Ann should abscond from the Service of me the Said Mary Jarrell my heirs Executors administrators or assigns that then and in Such Case the Said Negro Ann So absconding Shall make good her lost time by so absconding by Servetude  and Labour after the Expiration of the time Mentioned for her to Serve as aforesaid. In Witness whereof I the Said Mary Jarrell have here unto Set my hand and affixed my Seal the 15th day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and Eighteen … 1818. Mary Jarrell {seal}

Signed Sealed and Delivered in presents of Roger B Anderson Thomas Price

State of Delaware Kent County  I hereby Certify that Mary Jarrell party to the within Manumission Personally appeared before me Thomas Price one of the Justices of the peace in and for Said County and did acknowledge the Same to be her act and Deed for the use and purposes therein Mentioned. In Testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand and Seal the 16th day of June 1818. T. Price

A true Copy recorded and compared with the original this 8th day of June A.D. 1820. Attest John W. Many Recdr.

Delaware, U.S., Land Records, 1677-1947, Kent County, Roll 794, Image 298, Book T, Vol 2, Page 18. Ancestry: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/61025/images/31303_221881-00297?pId=2443121

Transcribed 6 Jun 2025 by Nancy Maliwesky