Know all men by these presents that I Isaac Davis of Duck Creek hundred in the County of Kent & State of Delaware have manumitted, enfranchised and set free and by these presents do manumit, infranchise and set free and at his intire liberty, my negro slave Henry Biddle, which I purchased of Jacob Biddle Esq now supposed to be about the age of thirty five years Witness my hand & Seal this Seventeenth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty four. Isaac Davis {seal}

Witness Alex Peterson Michael Offley

Kent County SS The State of Delaware Be it remembered that Isaac Davis personally appeared before me William Ringgold one of the Justices of the Peace in and for Kent County aforesaid and acknowledged the above manumission to be his Act and Deed and desired that it might be recorded. Witness my hand this 18th day of December A.D. 1834 Wm. Ringgold

I received this manumission to record this nineteenth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty four 1834. H. Todd Recr.

A true Copy recorded and compared with the Original this nineteenth day of Decr. A.D. 1834. H. Todd Recr.

Delaware, U.S., Land Records, 1677-1947, Kent County, Roll 800, Image 22. Book H, Volume 3, Page 227

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Transcribed 16 Dec 2025 by Nancy Maliwesky