Whereas a certain negro woman named Peggy Fiddeman who formerly Belonged to my Father in law Major Anderson was given by him on my marriage with his Daughter to one when the said negroe was about eleven or twelve years of age and whereas on the first day of January 1818 I set this negroe woman free when She left my Service and has been acting for herself ever Since; and whereas the Said negroe woman has Since my Said manumission of her had two children Ennolds and Jane and whereas on the Death of my Said father in law the Said negroe woman was appraised into his Estate at thirty Six dollars and Sold in that Estate for one Dollar to Mrs. Anderson the widow of my Said father in law the Said negroe woman being there considered in fact as not belonging to that Estate by Reason of the Said Gift to me: and whereas some Doubts may remain or arise from there being now no Evidence of the Said manumission: therefore be it known that I do hereby renew & confirm that Emancipation and declare that the Said Negro woman was at the time she left me as aforesaid a free woman & her children Since then born equally free and that I do hereby in confirmation of that Emancipation and to give due Effect thereto now declare them free and Emancipated. Witness my hand & Seal this 28th July 1828. Whereas a certain negro woman named Peggy Fiddeman who formerly

Belonged to my Father in law Major Anderson was given by him on

my marriage with his Daughter to one when the said negroe was about

eleven or twelve years of age and whereas on the first day of January

1818 I set this negroe woman free when She left my Service and has

been acting for herself ever Since; and whereas the Said negroe

woman has Since my Said manumission of her had two children

Ennolds and Jane and whereas on the Death of my Said father

in law the Said negroe woman was appraised into his Estate 

at thirty Six dollars and Sold in that Estate for one Dollar to Mrs. 

Anderson the widow of my Said father in law the Said negroe wom=

=an being there considered in fact as not belonging to that Estate

by Reason of the Said Gift to me: and whereas some Doubts may

remain or arise from there being now no Evidence of the Said

manumission: therefore be it known that I do hereby renew

& confirm that Emancipation and declare that the Said Negro

woman was at the time she left me as aforesaid a free woman

& her children Since then born equally free and that I do hereby

in confirmation of that Emancipation and to give due Effect

thereto now declare them free and Emancipated. Witness my

hand & Seal this 28th July 1828. Philip D. Fiddeman (seal}

Sealed & delivered in the Presence of Wm Hill Wells Edwd. L Wells
 

State of Delaware Kent County Personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the in and for Said County Philip D. Fiddeman the Same whose name is Signed to the above manumission and acknowledged the same to be his act and Deed according to the true intent and meaning thereof in due form of law. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this 28th day of July A.D. Eighteen hundred & twenty Eight. Jacob Biddle Jus P.

A true Copy recorded and compared with the original this 5th day of August A.D. 1828 Attest John W Many Recdr

Delaware, U.S., Land Records, 1677-1947, Kent County, Roll 797, Book B, Volume 3, Page 37

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