Tag: African American History
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Deed Andrew Hamilton & Wife Mary to Samuel Chew 1742
This Indenture made the Twenty Eight Day of February in the Sixteenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second by the Grace of God of Great Brittain France & Ireland King Defender of this faith &c Annoq Dom: 1742. Between Andrew Hamilton of the City of Philadelphia & province of Pennsylvania…
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Kent County Delaware Probate Estate Files – Samuel L Chew 1738-1761
Samuel L. Chew’s Estate Inventory [Partial Transcription – Slaves] Negroes at house Plantation 1 old Negro man Forrest Acc per £20.. & one Do Whitehorn £16 36..0..0 1 young Negroman Johney £45 & one Do London £45 90..0..0 I Negro boy Dempshare £25 & a Negro woman Sue Sicklee £20 45..0..0 1 Negro woman Moll…
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Sale of Slaves to Benjamin Chew by Mary Alford 1759
This Indenture made this Twenty eighth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Fifty nine Between Mary Alford of Kent County on Delaware Executrix of the Testament and last Will of Thomas Alford deceased of the one part, And Benjamin Chew of the City of Philadelphia Attorney at…
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Apprentice Indenture Mariah Vining to James Cowgill 1833
This Indenture, made this twenty fourth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand and eight hundred and thirty three witnesseth that Jacob Biddle and Thos. Stevenson two of the Justices of the peace in Kent County and State of Delaware hath put and bound and by these presents do put and…
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Manumission Negro Girl Lucy from Hannah Turner 1778
Whereas my Father Isaac Turner of Queen Anns County in the Province of Maryland died intestate & left a number of Negroes in Slavery to which I was intituled by an Act of Assembly of said Province to a Dividend with the other children. And Whereas my Step-father Samuel Rowland of Sussex County hath this…
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Manumission Negro Robert from Isaac Turner 1778
I Isaac Turner of Sussex County on Delawa. Joiner do hereby manumit & set absolutely free my negro Man called Robert aged about twenty-one years, so that henceforth he shall be deemed adjudged & taken as and for a free Man to all Intents & Purposes, and at Liberty to act for himself, without the…
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Manumission Sundry Negroes from Samuel and Hannah Rowland 1778
Whereas Isaac Turner of Queen Anns County ^Maryland died intestate leaving a Widow & several Children, and he in his Life Time having a Number of Negroes held as Slaves; and Whereas his Widow and Administx hath since intermarried with Samuel Rowland of Sussex County on Delaware, and by the Laws of the Province of…
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Manumission Girl Frances from Samuel Rowland 1778
I Samuel Rowland of Sussex County on Delaware Yeoman do hereby manumit & set absolutely free my Negro Girl called Frances aged about sixteen years, so that she shall henceforth be deemed adjudged and taken for & as a free Woman to all Intents & Purposes and at Liberty to act for herself without the…
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Manumission Isaac, Hampshire and Patience from Mary Nock 1777
I Mary Nock of Duck Creek Hundred in Kent County on Delaware do hereby manumit & set absolutely free all my Negroes as hereafter particularly named towitt: Isaac young Man aged ____ and Hampshire a Boy born in ye 9th Mo. 1765, and Patience a girl aged ___ so that henceforth they shall be deemed…
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Will, Joseph Israel 1807
In the name of God, Amen! I, Joseph Israel of NewCastle County, in the state of Delaware, Esquire, being in a sick and low condition of Body, but of sound and perfect mind and memory, considering the uncertainty of life, and knowing the certainty of death, Do hereby make, ordain and declare this Instrument of writing…
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