Tag: Dover
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Manumission Betty from Thomas Bradford Jr. 1806
Manumission Negro Betty from Thomas Bradford Junr. Know all men by these presents, that I Thomas Bradford Junior of the City of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, now in the Town of Dover, County of Kent, and State of Delaware, have from motives of humanity, manumitted and hereby do manumit and set free from slavery, my…
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Manumission Anthony from Henry M. Ridgely 1810
Manumission Negro Anthony from Henry M. Ridgely Know all men by these presents that I H. M. Ridgely, of the Town of Dover, Kent County, and State of Delaware, have manumitted enfranchised and set free from slavery and do, by these presents manumit enfranchise and set free from slavery on the first day of April…
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Manumission Elijah Smith from Thomas Clayton 1814
Elijah Smith from Thomas Clayton Manumission Know all men by these presents that I Thomas Clayton of Dover in the State of Delaware for divers Good Causes and considerations me thereto moving have manumit free my negro man Elijah who calls himself Elijah Smith now about twenty four years of Age hereby for my self my…
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