Category: Manumissions
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Manumission Negro Charles Hall from Negro Isaac Hall 1826
Know all men by these presents that I Isaac Hall a freeman of Color of Baltmore Hundred in the County of Sussex and State of Delaware do hereby for and in consideration of Parental affection and the belief that liberty is the Birth right of man manumit set free and at liberty my son and…
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Manumission Negro Hannah & Others from Rachel Hayes 1810
Know all men by these presents that I Rachel Hays widow and Admiinistratrix of Nathaniel Hays late of the County of Sussex and State of Delaware deceased for divers good causes and consideration me hereunto moveing do hereby emancipate liberate discharge and set free Immediately at and after the date of these presents Negroe Hannah…
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Manumission Negro Paris From Samuel Finley 1797
I Samuel Findley of the County of Sussex and State of Delaware do hereby manumate and set free and absolutely Discharge my Negro man Pares aged 23 years So That here forth he Shall be Deemed and taken as and for a free person & act for and in behalf of him as any other…
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Manumission Negro Grace from Betsey Wingate 1807
Know all men by these presents that I Betsey Wingate of the County of Sussex and State of Delaware for divers good causes and considerations me thereunto moving do manumit my Negro Girl Grace aged Sixteen years, to be her own free woman the first day of January in the year of Our Lord Eighteen…
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Manumission Negr Saml from John Dashiell & Abigail Bell 1804
To all to whom these presents shall come Know Ye that We John Dashiell and Abigail Bell of Sussex County and the State of Delaware from and after the Expiration of the fifteenth day of October Eighteen hundred and Eleven do Manumit and enfranchise and set free Our Negro Man called Samuel Which we bought…
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Manumission Negro Isaac from Stephen Warrington 1807
Know all men by these presents that I Stephen Warrington of the County of Sussex in the State of Delaware Yeoman being the sole owner and having the entire and Exclusive right and property of a Negro boy named Isaac aged fifteen years or thereabouts do for certain good reasons me thereunto moving manumit liberate…
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Manumission Abraham & Brener from Peter Hall 1807
This is to Certify that I do this day Liberate and Set free from my service my negro men Abraham and a Negro Woman called Brener and that they may enjoy the privilege of the Laws of the State and have the same right to enjoy them as any other free Negros or Mulattoes may…
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Manumission Negro Abner from Wm Kendrick 1809
Know all men by these presents that I William Kindrick of Cedar Creek hundred in the County of Sussex and State of Delaware doth by these presents Manumate Emancipate liberate and set free the following Negro the Slave of me the said William Kendrick to wit Abner which is now about Thirty one years of…
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Manumission Negro David Cooper from John Bellach 1800
Whereas, I John Bellach of the County of Kent and State of Delaware, by means of an obligation to pay Benjamin Chew, Senior, the sum of one hundred and two pounds, did obtain from him, on the Twenty six day of March one thousand seven hundred and ninety eigh, a Deed of bargain and sale…
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Negro John Claxton Manumission from Edward Manning Grey 1792
Know all men by these presents that I Edward Manning Grey late of the Island of St Christophers now living and inhabiting in the Borough of Wilmington in the County of New Castle in the State of Delaware in consideration of long and faithful Services rendered to me by my Negro Man Slave named John…
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