Tag: Borough of Wilmington
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Manumission Harry Ruly from Mary Redding 1812
Know all Men by these Presents that I Mary Redding of the Borough of Wilmington County of NewCastle and State of Delaware Widow, Have and by the Presents do Manumit Enfranchise and release from slavery a certain negro boy named Harry Ruly, my property, now aged Ten years and one month. To have and hold…
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Manumission Katherine Bates from Hannah Anderson 1808
To all to whom these presents shall shall come Hannah Anderson of the Borough of Wilmington County of NewCastle and State of Delaware Sends Greeting, Know ye that the said Hannah Anderson for divers good causes and considerations here thereunto moving and also for and in consideration of the regard she entertains for her Negro…
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Deed John Way and wife Jane to Abraham Doras 1803
This Indenture Made the Seventeenth day of April in the Year of our Lord one thou- sand eight hundred and three, Between John Way of of Christiana Hundred and County of NewCastle in the State of Delaware Esquire, and Jane his wife of the one Part and Abraham Doras of the Borough of Wilmington &…