Tag: Dover Hundred
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Deed Jas Barratt Senr & wife & Jas Barratt Jr. & wife et all To T. G. Marvell 1860
This Indenture made this thirtyeth day of October in the year o our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty Between James Barratt Senior and Mary his wife James Barratt Junior and Fannie his wife and William Carpenter and Hester his wife all of Kent County and State of Delaware of the one part, and…
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Deed Solomon Mumford & wife to Isaac Gibbs Negro 1831
This Indenture made this Sixth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and thirty one Between Solomon Mumford of Dover hundred Kent County and State of Delaware and Lucy his wife of the one part and Isaac Gibbs of Dover hundred of county and State aforesaid of the other…
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Henry M Ridgley Manumission to Negro Richard Walcott 1833
Know all men by these presents that I Henry M Ridgely of the town of Dover Kent County and State of Delaware from motives of benevolence and humanity have manumitted enfranchised and Set free from Slavery and do hereby manumit enfranchise and Set free from Slavery my negro male Slave named Richard otherwise called Richard…
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Negro Daniel Manumission from Hannah Carrow & Wm Carrow 1824
Know all men by these presents that we Hannah Carrow and William Carrow of Dover Hundred in Kent county in the State of Delaware admrs of William Carrow late of the Said County deceased and whereas the said William Carrow had at the time of his death a certain Negro by Named Daniel left by…
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Manumission Negro Robert Boulden from Outten L Davis 1823
Know all men by these presents that I Outten L. Davis of Dover Hundred in the County of Kent and state of Delaware for Divers good Causes and considerations me thereunto moveing have released from slavery liberated manumated and set free and by these presents do hereby release from slavery liberate manumit and set free…
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Deed James Harmon to David Hopper 1829
This Indenture made this 13th day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine Between James Harman (Colored Man) formerly St Jones’s hundred but now of Dover hundred in the county of Kent and State of Delaware of the one part, and David Hopper of the same hundred…
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Deed Elizabeth Jackson N to Stephen Gibbs N 1832
This Indenture made this Eighteenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two by and Between Elizabeth Jackson free black woman of Dover in Dover hundred Kent County and State of Delaware of the one part and Stephen Gibbs a free Black man of Dover forrest in…
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Vincent Loockerman Jr 1745-1790 Probate File Inventory – 18 May 1790 Negroes
Abraham valued @ 20..0..0 Five small Male children 20..0..0 One Female Child Rachel 10..0..0 One Negro Woman Peg 3..0..0 One Negro man Aaron 35..0..0 One Negro Woman Nell 3..0..0 One Negro Stephen 30..0..0 One Negro Boy Bill 6..0..0 One Negro girl Suk 7..10..0 Two small Female children 3..0..0 One negro Man Isaac 35..0..0 One Negro…
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Indenture John W. Macklin to Moses America 1856
This Indenture made this twenty seventh day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty six. Witnesseth that Rebecca Macklin in Dover hundred mother of John Wesley Macklin hath in the presence and with the approbation of Thos. Stevenson a Justice of the Peace for Kent County in the…
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Rachel Rickards Last Will and Testament 1865
I Rachel Rickards of the Town of Dover in the County of Kent and State of Delaware (colored woman) being of sound mind memory and understanding do make and publish this my last will and testament hereby revoking and making void all former wills by me at any time heretofore Made And as to such…
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