Whereas my Father Isaac Turner of Queen Anns County in the Province of Maryland died intestate & left a number of Negroes in Slavery to which I was intituled by an Act of Assembly of said Province to a Dividend with the other children. And Whereas my Step-father Samuel Rowland of Sussex County hath this Day agreed to let Me have a negro girl named Lucy aged about five years which I agree to take for my Share or Dividend thereof.

Now Know all Men by this Instrument of Writing that I Hannah Turner of the last mentioned Place, do hereby manumit and set absolutely free the above named girl Lucy, so that henceforth she shall be deemed, adjudged, & taken as and for a free Person, and when she shall arive to eighteen years of age, then to be at her own Disposal and at Liberty to and for herself as a free Woman, she & her Posterity forever; without the Lett, Hindrance or Molestation of Me, or any other Person or Persons, claiming or to claim, by from or under Me. And further I do hereby bind Myself my Heirs Executors & Admrs and every of us unto the afsd negro girl Lucy in the penal Sum of one Hundred Pounds lawful Money of this Governmt to be recovered by her from such of us as may attempt ^to deprive her of her Liberty granted as afsd & also in the like Claim from such of us as to attempt to oblige the doing any other or further Act or Deed that she may reasonably require or need in Order to further confirm & establish her just & equitable Liberty granted as afsd. In Testimony whereof I do hereunto set my Hand and affix my Seal this Eleventh day of ye First Month, one thousand seven Hun- & seventy eight. 1778. Hannah Turner {seal}

Sealed & delivered in presence of us Warner Miffilin Samuel Rowland Susanna Cox Elizabeth Cowgill Isaiah Rowland

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 22 May 2026 by Nancy Maliwesky