Tag: Duck Creek Cross Roads
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Manumission Sarah Chandler, Jacob Chandler from Stewart Redman 1800
To all People before whom these presents may come Greeting. Know ye. That I Stewart Redman of Duck Creek Hundred, Kent County in the State of Delaware, having weighed in the scale of Justice the conditions of Slavery, am sencibly convinced, That it is unwarrantable, as well by the laws of Religion as morality and…
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Manumission Jacob Attix, Abraham Attix, Richard Ranger and Mark Lamb from Benjamin Blackiston Jr 1800
Know all men by these presents, That I Benjamin Blackiston the younger of Duck Creek Cross Roads, Kent County, in the State of Delaware have, and by these presents do hereby manumit Liberate, and set free from Slavery the following Negroes in form following to wit Jacob Attix, negro on the first Day of January…
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Manumission Isaac and Peter from William Spearman 1798
Know all men by these presents that I William Spearman of Duck Creek X Roads, Kent County Delaware for divers good caus me thereunto moving have manumited & Set free, and by these presents do manumitt Liberate and Set free when they shall arrive at the age of Twenty five Years old the following Negro…