Know all Men by these presents that I Barthia Hazel of duck creek Hundred & County of Kent on Delaware (Widow) do hereby manumit and set Absolutely free, negro Peter a Man aged near forty years (who has had his Liberty some Time back) and also my negro Girl named Phebe born the 7th Day of the third Month 1762, so that henceforth they shall be deemed adjudged and taken as and for free People, that is to say, Man Peter this Day & Girl Phebe when she arives to eighteen years of Age to be at their own Disposal & at Liberty to act for themselves as free Man & Woman without the Lett Hindrance or Molestation of Me or any other Person or Persons whatsoever forever claiming or to claim by from or under Me. And further I do hereby bind myself my Heirs Executors Administrators & every of us in the penal Sum of one hundred Pounds lawfull Money of this Governmt unto each the afsd Negroes to do or execute any other or further act or Deed that they or either of them may reasonably require or need in Order to further confirm their just Liberty granted as aforesaid – In Witness whereof I do hereunto set my Hand & affix my Seal this eighth Day of the Sixth Month in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred seventy & six. 1776. Barthia Hazel {seal}

Witness unto the Sealing & delivery John Cowgill Warner Mifflin John Bowers

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