Tag: Kent County
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Manumission Leah Dyer and others from Francis Asbury Boyer 1810
Manumission Leah Dyer and others from Frances Asbury Boyer Know all men by these Presents that I Frances Asbury Boyer student of Medicine, now of Camden, Kent County State of Delaware; do hereby manumit and set absolutely free my Negroes in the state of Maryland or elsewhere, the male negroes at the age of twenty…
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Manumission Joseph Barratt from Cornelius Battell 1807
Manumission Joseph Barratt from Cornelius Battell Know all men by these presents that I Cornelius Battell of Murderkill hundred Kent County and State of Delaware think it wrong and oppressive to hold negroes in objeck slavery do hereby Manumate and set free my Negro Boy Joseph Barratt which I purchased of the Admrs. of Mariam…
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Manumission Hester Sutten & Alice Hone from William Warner to 1814
Manumission from Wm Warner to Hester Sutten & Elice Hone Know all men by these presents that I William Warner of Kent County in the State of Delaware Esquire for divers Good Causes & Consideration me hereunto moving hath and by these presents doth manumit emancipate Liberate and set free and at full liberty two…
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Manumission Hannah and others from Dr James Sykes 1814
Manumission Hannah and others from Dc Jas. Sykes Know all men by these presents that I James Sykes Physician of the State of Delaware & County of Kent do manumit and do set free my negroes Girl Hannah and her two children Fanny and Ann whom I have lately sold to Joshua Shockly for a…
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Manumission Charles Martain from Levi Walcott 1811
Manumission Charles Martain Negro from Levi Walcut. State of Delaware Kent County} Be it Remembered that I Levi Walcut of Murderkill Hundred in the County and State Aforesaid, for divers good causes me hereto moving have Manumitted Emanepated Liberated and set free a certain Negro Man the slave of me the said Levi Walcutt, by…
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Manumission Case Wright and Others from Jesse Farlow 1808
Manumission Case Wright & others from Jesse Farlow. To all persons to whom these presents shall come Greeting: Know ye, that for divers good causes & considerations me thereunto moving, I do hereby declare free, Manumit & enfranchise the following Negroes, from and after the time hereafter mentioned, To wit, Case Wright on the Fifteenth…
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