Whereas my Father Jabez Jenkins did by his last Will and Testament give and bequeath me a legacy of a Negro Man called Samuel Bungee and whereas I Jabez Jenkins of Kent County on Delaware, Chaise-maker believe it to be the natural ^equitable and just Right of all Men to have the Liberty of disposing of their Persons and Property, for which Reason, I do hereby renounce all Claim & Demand whatsoever unto the arbitrary Perogative I might be tolerated in by the Laws & Usages of the Land, and set him the afsd Samuel Bungee absolutely free, so that henceforth he shall be deemed adjudged and taken as and for a free Man to all Intents & Purposed, and at Liberty to act for himself Without the Lett Hindrance or Molestation of Me or any other Person or Persons claiming or to claim by from or under Me forever And also do relinquish any Claim or Demand to any Hire or Wages he may have earned since my Fathers Death (he being let to his Liberty by Warner Mifflin, Executor to my Father, the greater Part of the Time since) & will to have refunded to him all such Sums of Money by him paid unto Warner Mifflin as Executor afsd all which I do hereby likewise fully authorize Warner Mifflin to do and perform without being answerable to Me: hereby fully releasing and aquatint him concerning thereof In Testimony whereof I do hereunto set my Hand & affix my Seal this tenth Day of the fourth Month in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & seventy seven 1777. Jabez Jenkins {seal}

Witness present to the acknowledgmt hereof Warner Mifflin  Daniel Mifflin   Ann Holliday

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 12 Apr 2026 by Nancy Maliwesky