Tag: Christiana Hundred
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Manumission Adam Bordlley from Rebeckah George 1828
To all to whom these presents may come know ye that I Rebeckah George of Christiana Hundred NewCastle County and State of Delaware, do hereby manumit, enfranchise, set free and at full liberty, a certain colour’d man by me held as a slave, Adam Bordley now aged about twenty four years. To be free and…
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Manumission Leah Vance and Rachel Vance from George Duffield 1820
To All to whom these presents shall come Know Ye that I George Duffield of Christiana hundred County of NewCastle and State of Delaware for divers good causes and considerations me thereunto moving have and do hereby manumit enfranchise set free and at full liberty my Negro Woman named Leah Vance aged now about Thirty…
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Will Scotland Hill 1817
Be it remembered That I Scotland Hill, being weak of body but of sound mind do make this my last Will and Testament. It is my will that all my Just Debts bepaid soon after my decease. I give to my wife Alice during her life the use Interest and Income of all of my…
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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 &…
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