Category: Manumissions
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Manumission Negro Samuel Porter from Levin Rickards & David Walton Admr. 1815
Know all men by these presents that I Levin Rickards Executor of Nathaniel Rickards late of the County of Kent & State of Delaware deceased Have & by these presents do agree and acknowledge that a Certain Negro Man named Samuel Porter late the property of the Said deceased Shall be free & at his…
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Manumission Ruth and others from Jonathan Manlove 1801
Know all men by these presents that I Jonathan Manlove of the Vilage of Milford in the county of Kent and State of Delaware do hereby manumit enfranchise and absolutely free ???? ???? the following Black People or negroes in manner and form and at such time & times as herein after expressed that is to…
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Manumission Negro Leah from Mitchell Kershaw 1814
Sussex County State of Delaware to all whome these presents shall come Greeting I Mitchell Kershaw of Sussex County in the State of Delaware for Divers good Causes and Considerations me thereunto moving do hereby Declare free manumite and enfranchise the negro following to wit one Girl Called and known by the name of Leah…
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Negro Isaac Manumission from Outten Davis 1826
Whereas I Outten Davis of St Jones Neck and hundred in the County of Kent in the State of Delaware hath this day to wit this twenty first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty Six purchased of a Certain Samuel M Wharton of St Jones neck…
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Manumission Jerry from Elizabeth Soper 1799 James Price Probate File 1812 – 1818
The accountant craves and Allowance for an error in the Inventory and appraisement unknown at the time of the former Settlements to wit; For the appraised value of a Black man named Jerry, appraised at the sum of $300 – whereas it appears by a manumission Duly executed by a certain Elizabeth Soper of Kent…
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Manumission Negro Cynthia from James Johnson 1816
Know all men by these presents that I James Johnson of Mispillion hundred in the County of Kent and State of Delaware ^Surveyor for certain Causes and Considerations me hereunto moving do hereby Manumit Enfranchise & set free my negroe Girl Cynthia, aged about Eleven years at and after the first day of January Eighteen…
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Manumission Negro Jacob Conwell from John Conwell CC 1816
Know all men by these presents that I John Conwell (CC) of the County of Sussex and State of Delaware being now the sole owner and having the entire and exclusive right to a certain negro man known by the name of Jacob aged thirty one years or thereabouts Do for certain good reasons me…
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Manumission Negro Milby from Williams Rickards Senr. 1813
Know all men by these presents that I William Rickards Senr. of Sussex County and State of Delaware for Divers good causes me thereunto moveing Do hereby manumit and set free my negro man named Milby aged Twenty five years old or there about from me and my said Executors administrators or assigns from the…
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Manumission of Diana & her children by Thomas Tomlinson 1834
Know all men by these presents that I Thomas Tomlinson of Kent County and State of Delaware from motives of benevolence and humanity have manumited and hereby do manumit and set free from slavery a certain negro woman named Diana and all her children that she now has or may have except Catharine born the…
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Negro George Hill Manumission from Reuben Anderson 1819
Know all men by these presents that I Reuben Anderson of the County of Kent & State of Delaware for divers good Causes & consideration me hereunto moving do Manumit, Enfranchise and absolutely set free a certain negro man named George Hill to be free and at his perfect liberty since the twentieth day of…
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