Know all Men by these presents that I Robert Register of little creek hundred in Kent County on Delaware do hereby manumit & set absolutely free my Negro Boy Casar aged about eight years so that henceforth he shall be deemed adjudged and taken as and for a free Person (as if free born) and when he arives to twenty one years of Age then to be at his own Disposal and at Liberty ^as a free Man to all Intents & Purposes to act for himself without the Lett Hindrance or Molestation of Me or any other Person or Persons whatsoever claiming or to claim from or under Me; engaging for myself & my Heirs to do our best Endeavors to teach or cause to be taught the afsd Boy Casar to read the Bible: and further I do hereby bind myself my Heirs Executors Admrs & every of us unto him the said Negro Caesar in the penal sum of one hundred pounds lawfull Money of this Governmt to do or perform any other or further act or Deed that he may reasonably require or need in Order to further confirm his just Liberty granted as aforesaid – In Witness whereof I do hereunto set my Hand & affix my Seal this eleventh day of the sixth Months in the year of our Lord one thousand Seven hundred & Seventy Six. 1776 Robert Register {seal}

Witness present to the Sealing & delivery hereof Warner Mifflin Rebecca Stout.

Before the sealing & delivery hereof the above named Robert Register reserves the above inserted Clause of teaching the above named Boy to read, to his own Pleasure if he sees proper so to do or not

Record Examined Warner Mifflin

U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, Delaware, Kent County, Duck Creek Monthly Meeting, Manumissions 1774-1792. https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2189/images/31906_275426-00490?pId=2350719

Transcribed 7 April 2026 by Nancy Maliwesky