This following Manumissions were executed by a Friend living within the Confines of Virginia in which Place there being no monthly Meeting of Friends settled to him contiguous his Manumissions are therefore admitted to Record here as deemed a Member ^ Resident of this Mo Meeting To all whom this may come Know ye that I Daniel Mifflin of Accomack County in the Colony of Virginia Farmer being convinced of the Iniquity & Injustice of detaining my fellow Creatures in Bondage (it being contrary to the standing & perpetual Command injoined by our blessed Lord to his followers to do unto others as we would they should do by us) and also further believing that after such Manifestation and Conviction made known, the continuing in Violation thereof will incur his Displeasure & debar me of the Enjoyment of the Peace promised to his faithfull followers & therefore believing it to be my Indispensable Duty, in Obedience to his Requirings & Command as afsd to grant to them their naturaly just & inherent Right & Priviledge, the Liberty of these Persons (which they are intitled to by Nature) Under the Consideration & Conviction afsd I do hereby manumit & set absolutely free from a State of Slavery & unnatural Bondage the following particularly named Negroes towitt James a young Man nineteen years of age, Charity Woman born the 11th Day 7th Mo. 1752; and her Child Hannah in the first Month 1775; the children of negro ^Woman named Sofia towitt Hannah a girl born in the 2d Mo 1763; Boy Ben born in the 4th mo 1766; Girl Rhoda in the Spring (born) of 1768: Girl Betty born in Spring 1769; Boy born ______ Boy Ned born _______ girl Peggy born ______; the Children of negro Woman Phebe towitt Boy Sam born the twentyeighth Day of 11th Mo. 1769: Boy Jacob born in the 10th Mo 1771; & the Child of Rachel negro Woman, named Nanny born in the 3d Mo. 1775; the Children of negro Woman named Esther towitt Girl Rhoda born the 23d Day of 7th Mo 1758; & Boy Ben born in the 12th Mo 1760; the Children of negro Woman named Patience towitt Tabitha a girl born the 7th Day of 7 Mo. 1763; girl Rebecca born the 18th Day of 8th Mo 1768; and has had 14 sons and two daughters Boy Jonathan born in the 12th Mo. 1769; Boy Abel born the 20th Day of the 10th Mo. 1773; & Boy Stephen born the first Day of first Month 1775, The Children of negro Woman named Jude towitt Boy York born in in the 5th Mo 1760; Girl Esther born the 12th Mo 1769; Boy Moses born the 29th Day of the eigth Month 1772: girl Leah born in the 10th Mo. 1774;  the Children of negro Woman called Dublin Sarah towitt Girl Betty born the 23d Day of the 7th Mo. 1765; girl Patience born Jude born in the 7mo 1769; Girl Candis born in the 7 month 1771 and girl Rachel born ________ the Children of negro Woman named Peggy towitt Barbary girl born the nineteenth Day the 4th Mo 1762; girl Judith born the 7th Day of the 4th Mo 1764; Boy Andrew born the 21st Day of the 3d Month 1766; Peggy girl born in the first Month 1768; Boy George born _______ Boy Arthur born on or about the 27th of 12th Mo 1772 and Boy Jacob born_______; the Children of negro Woman called Polly towitt girl Dinah born in ye first Month 1765 – Boy Levin born in ye 7th Month 1770; & Boy Beniah born ________; the Children of negro Woman named Binah girl Nanny born the 10th Day of the 1st Month 1756; girl Comfort born  the 5th Day of the 6th Month 1762; Boy Daniel born the 13th Day 10th Mo. 1760; girl Scarborough born in the 8th Month 1764; Boy Robert born the 19th of the 3d Month 1766; Girl Sal born _________; Boy Littleton born _______ _______ & Boy Abraham born on or about the 28th day of 12 mo 1770; the Children of negro Woman named Leah towitt: Betty girl born the 2mo 1760; Boy Abram born the 17th Day of 1mo 1763; girl Sabra, born the 1st Day of 7 Mo 1765; and Boy Sampson born in the Spring 1769: & Boy Isaac born ______ the Children of Woman named Sarah towitt Boy Daniel born the _______ girl Thamar born _____ So that they shall from henceforth be deemed adjudged & taken as and for free People that is to say, the male towitt Ben, Fisher, Ned, Sam, Jacob, Ben, Jonathan, Abel, Stephen, York, Moses, Andrew,  George, Arthur, Jacob, Levin, Beniah, Daniel Robert Littleton Abraham, Abram, Sampson, Isaac, Daniel, & James when they arive to the age of twenty one years, and the  female towitt Hannah, Rhoda, Betty, Peggy, Nanny, Rhoda, Charity, Hannah, Tabitha, Rebecca, Esther, Leah, Betty, Patience, Jude, Candis, Rachel, Barbary,  Judith, Peggy, Dinah, Nanny, Comfort, Scarborough, Sal, Betty, Sabra, & Thamar, when they arive to ^the age of eighteen years, then to be at their own Disposal & at Liberty to act for themselves, & shall be deemed adjudged & taken as & for free Men and Women without the Lett Hindrance, or Molestation of Me or any other Person or Persons whatsoever; & to be at full & free Liberty to appear for themselves & each in their own proper Names as free Men & Women to vindicate their Liberty against any Person or Persons that may attempt to deprive them of the same in any Respect. And I do hereby also lay it as a Charge on my Children that none of them attempt, by Colour of Right authorized by any unjust Law, usage or Custom that may tolerate them in such attempt, to deprive them of their Liberty as aforesaid; my Intention being hereby to set them in the full Enjoyment of Freedom, believing it to be 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 inFavor of the said Negroes equitable Liberty; & also to consider the Consequence when a Day of final Reckoning overtakes them if they wrongfully oppress their fellow Men, As Witness whereof I do hereunto set my Hand and affix my Seal this eigth Day of the fourth Month in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & seventy five. 1775. Daniel Mifflin {seal}

Witness present hereunto Warner Mifflin Baptist Lay Walker Mifflin

I do hereby certify that I fully approbate my Husbands executing the foregoing Manumission for the Freedom of the Negroes therein need Witness my Hand

Ann Mifflin

The foregoing and following Manumission or Manumissions were delivered into my possession by my Father Daniel Mifflin in Order to be recorded which is now Done and examined by Warner Mifflin

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

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