To all whom this may come, Know Ye that I Daniel Mifflin of Accomack County in the Colony of Virginia Farer being fully convinced of the Iniquity & Injustice of detaining my fellow Creatures in Bondage (it being contrary to the standing & perpetual Command enjoined by our blessed Lord to his followers, to do unto others as we would they should do unto us) and also further believing that after such Manifestation & Conviction made known the continuing in open Violation thereof will incur his Displeasure & prevent his Peace (promised to his faithful Followers) being handed fourth to Me. Therefore believing it to be my indispensable Duty in Obedience to his Requirings & Command as aforesaid to grant unto them their natural just and inherent Right & Priviledge, which they are intitled unto by Nature, under the Consideration & Conviction aforesaid, I do hereby declare all the Negroes hereafter particularly named absolute free, towitt, Nanny, Jude Hannah, Peter & Will antient Negroes, Binah, Ben, Jude,  Esther, James, George & Charity judged at fifty years & upwards; Barbary & Moll, upwards of forty years of age; Sarah, Peggy, James & Kent), Zadock & George (called Stealfone[?]) & Polly aged thirty years & upwards; Woman called Dublin Sarah[?], aged about twenty nine years; Rachel Woman aged about thirty, Man Ned, Joshua, & Woman Phebe upwards of twenty one; Nimrod Man under thirty years of age; Jeoram a Man aged near thirty seven years; Thamar a Woman aged near thirty five years; Leah Woman aged upwards of thirty two years, Patience Woman aged upwards of thirty years; Jude Woman aged thirty years, about Sophia Woman aged near thirty years; Man called Gilbert aged twenty eight Years; Perry a Man aged upwards of twenty-five years ; Lydia Woman aged about twenty four years; Man named John aged upwards of twenty one years; Woman named Isabella aged about twenty years; Woman  named Sarah, Daughter of negro Esther, aged about nineteen years; So that henceforth they the aforesaid Negroes, every & each of them shall be deemed, adjudged & taken as and for free Men and Women to all Intents and Purposes without the Lett Hindrance or Molestation of me my Heirs Executors, or any other Person or Persons whatsoever: but that they be at their own Disposal & at Liberty to act for themselves as free Men & Women; and at full and free Liberty as free Men & Women, each in their own proper Names to vindicate their natural & just Right, the Liberty of their Persons against any Person or Persons that may attempt to deprive them of the same in any Respect whatsoever, And I do hereby Lay it as a Charge on my Children that none of them attempt (by Colour of any unjust Law, Usage or Custom that may tolerate them in such Attempt) to deprive them or their Liberty as aforesaid my Intents on being hereby to set them in the Enjoyment of Freedom, believing it is their just Right assigned them by the Supreme Creator of all, in common with the Rest of Mankind; hereby also laying it as a Charge on the Consciences of the Courts or Judges before whom this may be brought, That they particularly attend to this Evidence in favor of the poor Negroe’s equitable Liberty: and also to consider the Consequence, when a Day of final Reckoning overtakes them if they wrongfully oppress their fellow Men. And further I do direct that the following named Negroes, having spent the Prime of their Time in my Service, & I do hereby promise & engage for them, that they be entituled to a Maintainance when needed from my Estate Towitt Nanny Binah, Ben, Jude, (Dublin); Jude; Hannah, Esther, Peter, Will, George, James, Charity, Moll, Barbary & Sarah. In Witness whereunto I have set my Hand and affixed my Seal this eighthDay of the fourth Month in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundredand seventy five. 1775. Daniel Mifflin {seal}

Witness present hereunto Warner Mifflin Baptist Lay Walker Mifflin

I do hereby signify my full & entire approbation to my Husband’s executing the foregoing Manumission for the freeing the Negroes therein particularly named. Witness my Hand Ann Mifflin

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 15 Apr 2026 by Nancy Maliwesky