This Indenture made this sixteenth Day of January Anno Domini one thousand seven hundred seventy six between Daniel Mifflin Senr & Daniel Mifflin Junr of Worcester County of the one Part; and Negroes; Frank alias Frank Allen; James called Kent James; & Sophia his Wife with their Children towitt Hannah, Ben, Rhoda, Betty, Fisher, Ned & Peggy; and Betty Blake with her children towitt Susey Blake John Blake, Comfort Blake ^born in ye 12th mo. 1764; Mary Blake & Hannah Blake, they and every of them being under the age of fifty years; of the other Part Witnesseth that the sd Daniel Mifflin Senr & Daniel Mifflin Junr for & in Consideration of the Justice due them from us the faithfull Service of the above said Negroes, and the good Behavior in general, & being desirous that the said Negroes should be manumitted & forever set free from Slavery, reserving to ourselves the Guardianship and Possession of the Youth untill the male young ones arive to the age of twenty one and the female young ones arive to the age of eighteen years, after which we have manumitted, set free & forever discharged & by these presents do manumit, set free & forever discharge the said Negroes & their Issue from the sd Daniel Mifflin and Daniel Mifflin Junr Heirs & Assigns; and the sd Daniel Mifflin Sen & Junior do covenant & agree to & with the said Negroes & their Heirs, that they are by these presents forever manumitted & set free and that We the sd Daniel Mifflin Sen’r & Junr, our Heirs, Exrs, or Admrs hath not nor shall have any Right, Title, Interest, Claim or Demand of in or unto the said Negroes more than above reserved, or either of them or their or either of their Heirs. In Testimony whereof the sd Daniel Mifflin Senr & Junr to these presents their Hands have putand Seals affix’d the Day & year above written or mentioned. Daniel Mifflin Senr {seal} Daniel Mifflin Junr {seal}

Sealed & delivered in the presence of us Nehemiah Holland John Allen

Maryland Worcester County Ss. Be it Remember’d that on the Day of the year within Written came Daniel Mifflin, Senr & Junr before Me ^the Subscribers one of his Lordships Justices of the Peace for Worcester County and acknowledged the within Writing to be their Act & Deed and the Negroes therein mentioned & their Issue to be forever manumitted & freed According to the Act of Assembly in such Cases made & provided & Acknowledg’d before… Nehemiah Holland

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 17 Apr 2026 by Nancy Maliwesky