Know all Men by this present Instrument of Writing that I John Edmondson of Kent County on Delaware Farmer do hereby manumit and set absolutely free (from full Conviction of its being my indispensable Duty) the following Negroes To Witt My negro Man called Abram aged (as judged) about forty five years: Bett a Negro Woman aged about thirty years (as judged); Pegg a Woman about twenty years & her child Nell fourteen months old; so that they from henceforth shall be deemed, adjudged & taken as & for free People, that is to say Abram, Bett and Pegg, from this Day & the child Nell when she arrives to eighteen years of age, and at their absolute Liberty & Disposal to act for themselves in all Respects common with free Men & Women, without the Lett, Hindrance, or Molestation of Me my Heirs Executors Admrs or any other Person or Persons whatsoever: hereby obliging myself my Heirs Executors & Adm to teach or cause to be taught the negro child named Nell to read the Bible: and further do hereby bind myself my Heirs Executors Admrs & every of us in the penal Sum of one hundred Pounds lawfull Money of this Government unto each of the aforesaid, to do or execute any other or further Act or Deed (for the further confirming unto them their just Right or afsd) that they may reasonably require or need. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and affixed my Seal this fifteenth Day of third Month in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy five. 1775. John Edmondson {seal}

Witness by John Cowgill Benja. Damson Warner Mifflin. William Wilson

Record Examined Warner Mifflin

U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Delaware, Kent County, Duck Creek Monthly Meeting, Manumissions 1774-1792.

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Transcribed 10 Apr 2026 by Nancy Maliwesky