Tag: African American Genealogy
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Manumission Betty from Thomas Bradford Jr. 1806
Manumission Negro Betty from Thomas Bradford Junr. Know all men by these presents, that I Thomas Bradford Junior of the City of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, now in the Town of Dover, County of Kent, and State of Delaware, have from motives of humanity, manumitted and hereby do manumit and set free from slavery, my…
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Manumission Benjamin from William M Satterfield 1805
Know all men by these present that I William M Satterfield of kent County and State of Delaware for divers good causes and considerations me hereunto moving do hereby manumit enfranchise and absolutely set free a negro man named Benjamin to be free and at his liberty the second day of february eighteen hundred and…
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Manumission Benjamin From Hillery Coudright 1813
Manumission Negro Benjamin from Hillery Coudright Know all me by these presents that I Hilery Coudright of Kent County and the State of Delaware for divers good causes and considerations me thereunto moving doe hereby enfranchise and set free My negro man Benjamin he being about twenty eight years of age and he the said Negro…
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Manumission Benjamin from Benjamin Hazel 1806
Manumission Negro Benjamin from Benjamin Hazel. Know all men by these presents that I Benjamin Hazel of Kent County and State of Delaware for divers good causes and considerations do hereby Manumit and set free from Slavery my Negro Boy Benjamin (which I purchased from James Sorden) Reserving to my self my heirs Executors Administrators…
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Manumission Benjamin and others from James Raymond 1806
Manumission Negro Benjamin & others from Jas. Raymond To all People before whom these presents come Greeting: Know ye that I James Raymond of Duck Creek hundred Kent County in the State of Delaware. having weighed in the scale of Justice the conditions of slavery am sensibly convinced that it is unwarrantable a well by…
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Manumission Belender from Thomas Brown 1810
Know all men by these presents that I Thomas Brown of St. Jones’s hundred Kent County and State of Delaware for divers good causes and considerations, do by these presents manumit, liberated and set free a certain Negro Girl, named Belender, aged about thirteen years and I do hereby further agree that the said negro…
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Manumission Barbary and others from Samuel Warren Sr 1810
Manumission Negro Barbary & others from Samuel Warren Senr. Know all men by these presents that I Samuel Warren the Elder of Murderkill hundred Kent County in the state of Delaware for divers good causes & considerations me hereunto moving hath manumitted liberated emancipated and set free, and by these presents doth manumitt liberate emancipate…
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Manumission Anthony from Henry M. Ridgely 1810
Manumission Negro Anthony from Henry M. Ridgely Know all men by these presents that I H. M. Ridgely, of the Town of Dover, Kent County, and State of Delaware, have manumitted enfranchised and set free from slavery and do, by these presents manumit enfranchise and set free from slavery on the first day of April…
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Manumission Anthony Barber from Dolly and Abraham Barber 1809
Manumission Negro Anthony Barber from Dolly & Abraham Barber Know all men by these presents, that we Dolly Barber and Abraham Barber of Jones’s Hundred Kent County and State of Delaware, for divers good causes and considerations as thereunto moving, Have Emancipated Liberated and by these presents, Do Emancipate Liberate and set free a certain…
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Manumission Anna From James Jones 1807
Manumission Negro Anna From James Jones To all whom it may concern This is to certify that I James Jones of Duck Creek hundred in Kent County and State of Delaware do hereby Manumit, release and set free my negro woman Anna aged twenty nine or thirty years old and from henceforth the said Negro…
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