Category: Manumissions
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Manumission Merrcy or Merian from Garrett Wharton 1789
It is my desire and last Will that if it should Please God to take me from this world, that my Female Slave Called Merrcy or Merian be and she is hereby declared to be entitled to her Freedom and I do hereby absolutely and fully emancipate liberate and declare her to be free within…
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Manumission Stephen Sparks from Benoni and Charity Harris 1790
Kent County, Delaware November 18th 1790. This may certify all home it may concearn that we the Subscribers, do hereby Manumit, Discharge and Emanupate Stephen Sparks Negro, at or after the expiration of the full Term of Ten Years, and one Month from the date hereof, from Slavery, to be free from the Service of…
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Manumission Rachel and Abraham from John White 1791
To all Whom it may concern __ know all Men by these presents that I John White of the Town of Dover in the County of Kent in the State of Delaware have and by these presents do manumit set free and at perfect liberty a certain negro Girl named Rachel born 12th March 1779…
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Sale of Slave Toney to Himself at Sheriff’s Sale 1791
Know all men by these presents that I Andrew Barratt Esqr high Sheriff of Kent County on Delaware do hereby Certify that by Virtue of a Write of Venditioni Exponas to me directed issued out of the Court of Common pleas of said County I did among other things set up at public Vendue a…
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Manumission Hannah and Sarah from Charles Nixon 1790
Know all Men by these presents that I Charles Nixon of Kent County & State of Delaware for and in Consideration of the Sum of fifteen pounds have granted Bargained & Sold to John Freeman One negroe Woman named Hannah late the property of Preston Young deceased together with her female child three Years old…
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Manumission Benjamin by James Scotten 1791
Whereas a negro man named Benjamin has been held by me a slave, but being convinced of the errors of slavery, I do hereby, for my self, my Heirs, Executors, Administrators and Assigns, give up all right and title, to the said Benjamin and he is from this time free; No longer subject to my…
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Manumission Black Pompy from John and Sarah Coppage 1788
Recd. January the Sixteenth 1788 of Black Pompy the sum of Forty Pounds it being in full for his freedom. As Witness our hands, this 16th Day of January One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty-eight. 1788. John Coppage Sarah Coppage Witness, present. John Gibbs William Frasier Nancy Coppage a true Copy Test Francis Many Recordr Delaware,…
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Manumission Stephen Toney from Elizar Butler and John Howard 1792
We the Subscribers do hereby for ourselves our Heirs Executors, and Administrators absolutely liberate and set free a certain negro boy named Stephen Toney at or upon the fourteenth day of April One Thousand Eight Hundred and three. that from & after that day he shall be esteemed as a freeman. Given under our hands…
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Manumission Cloe from David Lewis 1792
To all to whom this may come know ye that I David Lewis of Kent County and Delaware State Farmer out of a consideration discharge of my duty, and doing Justice to her to hereby manumited and set absolutely free my following named Negro Woman named Cloe aged about Twenty years so that henceforth she…
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Manumission Solomon from Richard Manwaring 1790
Articles of agreement made and concluded this twenty sixth day of April in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and ninety by and Between Richard Manwaring Junior of the One part and John Wiltbank of the Town of Dover Carpenter of the other part. Where as the aforesaid Richard Manwaring hath a…
