Know all Men by these presents that We Nimrod Maxwell and Wife Elizabeth of the County of Kent upon Delaware from a Conviction that it is our religious Duty, do hereby Manumit, discharge & forever set free the following Negroes being all that remain in our Possession, towitt Celia a Woman aged about eighteen years & three Months, Isaac a Lad about nineteen years & six Months, Charles a Boy twelve years in the fourth Month last, David a Boy six years in the eighth Month last, Catharine a girl two years in the tenth Month last, Peter a Boy one year old in the fifth Month last; so that they shall be deemed adjudged and taken as & for free People ^to all Intents & Purposes as if legally born free, They & their Heirs from us & our Heirs Exrs Admrs or any other Person or Persons claiming by Right or Pretence of Claim or Right derived from us or either of us, forever: That is to say, Celia from the Date hereof in all Respects shall be at full Liberty & her own Disposal to act for herself; and each of the above Boys viz Isaac Charles David & Peter when they arive to the age of twenty one years to be calculated from their ages specified, Calling them the very ages that they are said to be about &c And Catharine when arived to the age of eighteen years; reserving to ourselves the guardianship & Tuition of them vix each of the young ones till the time above ascertained. And we do hereby bind Ourselves our Heirs Exrs Admrs to them & each of them their Heirs Exrs or Admrs in the Sum of one Thousand Pounds good & lawful Money  to do any other or further Act or Deed requisite, or that they may reasonably require, for the further Confirmation of the just and natural Right of all Men & Women, viz the Liberty of their Persons, which, without Equivocation or mental Reservation, is hereby meant to be given them: also empowering them or either of them or their Heirs to recover the like Sum as aforesd from us or our Heirs on any attempt of us or either of us to deprive them of their Liberty in any Respect. In Confirmation We have hereunto set our Hands and affixed our Seals this 14th Day of the sixth Month Anno Domini. 1779. Nimrod Maxwell {seal}. Elizabeth Maxwell {seal}

Signed, Sealed, & delivered and & acknowledged in the presence of Joseph Jenkins. Walker Mifflin.

Record Examined. Warner Mifflin

U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Delaware, Kent, Duck Creek Monthly Meeting, Manumissions 1774-1792, Image 31

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Transcribed 22 Sep 2026 by Nancy Maliwesky