Know all men by these presents that I David Owins of Murderkill Hundred in Kent County & State of Delaware do hereby Manumate infranchise and Set free from and after the term of ten years from the thirty first day of April last 1828 a Negro woman named Mary I purchased of a  certain Doctr Lemuel Hall of Baltimore hundred Sussex County and I do hereby declare after the term aforesaid the Said Negro Mary Shall be entitled to all the rights & priveledges of a free woman. Witness my hand this Sixth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand and Eight Hundred and twenty eight. David Owins {seal}

Signed Sealed and acknowledged in the presence of us Jacob Biddle     George Cubbage  

State of Delaware Kent County Ss Personally appeared before the Subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in & for Said County David Owns the Same whose name is signed to the above manumission and acknowledged the same to be his act & deed according to the true intent and meaning thereof in due form of law. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my & seal this 7th day of November Eighteen hundred & twenty eight. Jacob Biddle {seal}

A true Copy recorded and compared with the original this 6th day of November A.D. 1828. Attest John W. Many Recdr.

Delaware, U.S., Land Records, 1677-1947, Kent County, Roll 797, Image 77, Book B, Volume 3, Page 46.

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Transcribed 21 Nov 2025 by Nancy Maliwesky