Tag: Delaware History
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Manumission Sharper or Sharp from James McEver 1789
I James MEver of Murderkill Hundred in Kent County, and State of Delaware, yeoman, for diverse Considerations me especially moving, I do promise and engage for my self my Heirs Executors and Administrators that if my Negroe man named Sharper otherwise called Sharp, (who my Father by his Will bequeathd me) Shall well and faithfully…
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Manumission Merrcy or Merian from Garrett Wharton 1789
It is my desire and last Will that if it should Please God to take me from this world, that my Female Slave Called Merrcy or Merian be and she is hereby declared to be entitled to her Freedom and I do hereby absolutely and fully emancipate liberate and declare her to be free within…
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Will Absalom Gibbs 1842
Absalom Gibbs. I Absalom Gibbs of Murderkill Hundred Kent County and State of Delaware being advanced in age but of a sound and discrimination mind do this sixth day of July eighteen hundred and forty make this my last will and Testament as follows. Item. I give and bequeath to my son Abel Gibbs of…
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Will Jacob Vining 1863
Jacob Vining I Jacob Vining of the Town of Dover Kent County and State of Delaware, do on this nineteenth day of February in the year of our Lord one Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty three make and publish this my last will and Testament as follows, that is to say, First, I direct that my…
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Will John Furbee 1815
In the name of God Amen, I John Furbee (a coloured man) of the County of K[ent] and State of Delaware viewing the uncertainty of Life and the certainty of Death, being [of?] a Sound, disposing mind memory and understanding and wishing to settle and assign [my?] Temporal affairs (thanks be to Almighty God for…
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Will Moses America 1886
Moses America This is the Last Will and Testament of Moses America of East Dover Hundred Kent County and State of Delaware Item 1. I direct that my debts be paid by my Executor Item 2. It is my Will that my wife Elizabeth shall have no part of my Estate…
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John Vining Negro Noncupative Will 1807
Be it Remembered that on the thirty first day of January in the year of our Lord one Thousand Eight Hundred and Nine Henry Hoffeker did Exhibit to me Nathaniel Smithers Register of Kent county in the State of Delaware for the probate of wills etc an Instrument of writing purporting to be the Nuncupative…
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Manumission Stephen Sparks from Benoni and Charity Harris 1790
Kent County, Delaware November 18th 1790. This may certify all home it may concearn that we the Subscribers, do hereby Manumit, Discharge and Emanupate Stephen Sparks Negro, at or after the expiration of the full Term of Ten Years, and one Month from the date hereof, from Slavery, to be free from the Service of…
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Manumission Rachel and Abraham from John White 1791
To all Whom it may concern __ know all Men by these presents that I John White of the Town of Dover in the County of Kent in the State of Delaware have and by these presents do manumit set free and at perfect liberty a certain negro Girl named Rachel born 12th March 1779…
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Sale of Slave Toney to Himself at Sheriff’s Sale 1791
Know all men by these presents that I Andrew Barratt Esqr high Sheriff of Kent County on Delaware do hereby Certify that by Virtue of a Write of Venditioni Exponas to me directed issued out of the Court of Common pleas of said County I did among other things set up at public Vendue a…
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