Tag: Duck Creek Hundred
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Manumission Jeremiah From William Collins 1807
Manumission Negro Jeremiah From William Collins. State of Delaware Kent County} To all Persons to whom these presents shall come, Greeting: Know ye, that, for divers good causes & considerations me thereunto moving I William Collins do hereby declare free, manumit & enfranchise, from the day of the date hereof my negro Man named Jeremiah…
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Manumission James Hull from Edward Joy 1811
Manumission negro James Hull from Edward Joy Know all men by these presents that I Edward Joy of Duck Creek hundred & County of Kent state of Delaware do mancepate set free my negrow man named James Hull who I purchased from Isaack Truax for life that was formerly born the slave of William Murphy…
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Manumission Jacob Sanders from George Cummins 1814
Negro Jacob Manumission from George Cummins To all persons to whom these presents shall come know ye that I George Cummins of Duck Creek Hundred in the County of Kent and State of Delaware have manumitted and set free and by these presents do manumit and set free Jacob Sanders Negro, being the same Jacob that I…
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Manumission George from William Denny 1805
Manumission Negro George from William Denny Know all men by these presents that I William Denny of Duck Creek Hundred Kent County and State of Delaware, do hereby Manumit and set free my negro Man George, he having had his liberty some time, now in his twenty second year of his age, so that from…
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Manumission George from James Jones 1803
To all whom it may concern. This is to certify that I James Jones of Duck creek hundred in Kent County and State of Delaware do hereby manumit, release and set free my negroe boy George aged eight years and five months old after he shall have served me, my heirs, executors, administrators or assigns…
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Manumission Cato and Others from George Kennard 1803 (Slaves of Benjamin Chew of White Hall Plantation)
Manumission Negro Cato and others from George Kennard. A list of Forty negroes purchased of Benjamin Chew esquire with their names and supposed ages on the first day of January last, and whose time of servitude annexed thereto commences on the said first day of January one thousand Eight hundred & three. Cato aged 43…
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Manumission Benjamin and others from James Raymond 1806
Manumission Negro Benjamin & others from Jas. Raymond To all People before whom these presents come Greeting: Know ye that I James Raymond of Duck Creek hundred Kent County in the State of Delaware. having weighed in the scale of Justice the conditions of slavery am sensibly convinced that it is unwarrantable a well by…
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Manumission Anna From James Jones 1807
Manumission Negro Anna From James Jones To all whom it may concern This is to certify that I James Jones of Duck Creek hundred in Kent County and State of Delaware do hereby Manumit, release and set free my negro woman Anna aged twenty nine or thirty years old and from henceforth the said Negro…
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