Tag: Duck Creek Hundred
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Kent County Delaware Probate Estate Files – John Allee Sr 1771-1776
John Allee’s Will Dated Augst ye 8th 1771 proved the 14th Day of augst 1771 Recorded S fol 98 Jacob Stout Esqr & Silas Snow. apprs. Qualified Be it Remembered That I John Allee of Duck Creek hundred in the County of Kent upon Delaware being Weak of Body but of sound and disposing mind…
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Kent Co DE Probate Estate Files – Benjamin Blackiston Sr 1801-1803
Last Will & Testament of Benjm Blackiston Sr. 1801 In the Name of God, Amen. I Benjamin Blackiston of Kent County & State of Delaware being sick, and weak in Body, but of Sound mind & perfect Memory thanks be to Almighty God, and calling to mind the mortality of my body and that it…
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Indenture Samuel Blackiston to Benjamin Enos. 1847
This Indenture made this ninth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty seven, Between Samuel M. Harrington, Associate Judge of the State of Delaware of the one part, and Benjamin Enos of Duck Creek hundred, in the county of Kent and State aforesaid. of the other part.…
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Deed Aaron Stoops & Wife to Peter S. Collins 1847 (mentions John Collins, negro & Adam Lockwood, negro)
This Indenture made the thirty first day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty seven between Aaron Stoops of New Castle hundred New Castle County and State of Delaware and Elizabeth his wife of the one part and Peter S Collins of Duck Creek hundred Kent County in…
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Manumission Jane Smith to Negroes Casar and Ann 1776
Know all Men by these presents that I Janes Smith, Widow of Duckcreek Hundred in Kent County on Delaware do hereby manumit & set absolutely free all my Negroes hereafter particularly named Viz my negro man Casar aged twenty one years & about eight months; also my negro Woman named Ann aged about thirty six…
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Manumission Robert Holliday to Negro George Whitford 1775
I Robert Holliday of Duckcreek Hundred & County of Kent on Delaware Merchant, do hereby manumit and set absolutely free my negro Boy named George Whitford, born in the 7th Month 17th Day 1762 from an apprehension of it being my Duty so that from henceforth he the sd. George Whitford shall be deemed adjudged…
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Manumission Isaac Davis to Henry Biddle 1834
Know all men by these presents that I Isaac Davis of Duck Creek hundred in the County of Kent & State of Delaware have manumitted, enfranchised and set free and by these presents do manumit, infranchise and set free and at his intire liberty, my negro slave Henry Biddle, which I purchased of Jacob Biddle…
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Kent Co DE Probate Estate Files – Abraham Allee Sr 1770-1785 [Inventory of Slaves]
Inventory of the Goods of Abraham Allee sen Deceased 1770 … To one Old neagro man named Dick £00.10..0 To one young neagro man named Noke £75..0..0 To one Neagro woman named Mende £55..0..0 To one Neagro Boy named Perry £17..0..0 To Neagro girl named Bett £10..0,.0 To Neagro Boy Dave for Abrm Allee £20..0..0…
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Deed Ayres Stockley & Wife To James Tomlinson Ne. 1861
This Indenture made this fifth day of September in the Year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty one between Ayres Stockley of Kent County and State of Delaware and Margaret Stockley his wife of the one part; and James Tomlinson (n) of the same County and state of the other part; Witnesseth:…
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Joseph Hoffecker Manumission To Negroes George Manlove & Susannah Stephens 1832
To all whom it may concern be it known that I Joseph Hoffecker of Duck creek hundred in the County of Kent and State of Delaware for divers good causes and considerations me thereunto moving do hereby release from Slavery liberate manumit and Set free and by these presents do hereby release from Slavery liberate…
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