Tag: Kent County Delaware
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Vincent Loockerman Jr 1745-1790 Probate File Inventory – 18 May 1790 Negroes
Abraham valued @ 20..0..0 Five small Male children 20..0..0 One Female Child Rachel 10..0..0 One Negro Woman Peg 3..0..0 One Negro man Aaron 35..0..0 One Negro Woman Nell 3..0..0 One Negro Stephen 30..0..0 One Negro Boy Bill 6..0..0 One Negro girl Suk 7..10..0 Two small Female children 3..0..0 One negro Man Isaac 35..0..0 One Negro…
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Negro Jacob Manumission from Margaret Baynard 1819
Know all men by these presents That I Margaret Baynard of Kent county State of Delaware do hereby liberate Manumit enfranchise and set free from Slavery my negro Slave Jacob and do hereby renounce all right of power in law for me my heirs executors or administrators to reclaim the Said Jacob from the date…
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Manumission Julian Boulden (n) from Henry T. Hoffecker 1850
Know all men by these presents that I Henry T. Hoffecker of Duck Creek hundred Kent County & State of Delaware have manumitted enfranchised & set free & hereby do manumit enfranchise and free my negro slave named July Ann Boulden to be free son and from this first day of November in the year…
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Negroes Judith & two Children Manumission from Charles Hollis 1817
Know all men by these presents That I Charles Hollis of Kent County in the State of Delaware Free negro from motives of affection and benevolence and for other good causes have manumitted enfranchised and set free from Slavery my Negro female Slave named Judith who is now my wife and about the age of…
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Negroes Margarett Dixon & others Manumission from Mary Reynolds 1814
Whereas I Mary Reynals, Widdow and Admr of Michael Reynas Dec become possessed of two people of Colours – viz Margaret Dixon or Peggy Dixon about Ninteen years of age and her daughter Elizabeth Dixon now about four years old the sd. Peggy being in the Character of a Slave to serve untill she was…
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Negro Isaac Manumission from Reuben Turner 1818
Know all men by these presents that I Reuben Turner of the city of Philadelphia for diverse good causes and Considerations me hereunto moving do hereby manumit enfranchise and absolutely set free a certain negro man named Isaac (who I left in Kent County in the State of Delaware when I removed to Philadelphia to…
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Manumission Negro Rachel from Abraham Pierce 1819
Know all men by these that I Abraham Pierce of the Village of Smyrna Kent County & State of Delaware for Divers good Causes me thereunto moving have Emancipated & set free my Negro Woman Named Rachel a Slave to be free on the first day of April in the year of our Lord Eighteen…
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Negroes Diniah & others Manumission from Thomas Jackson 1818
Know all men by these presents, that I Thomas Jackson of the County of Kent and State of Delaware for divers good causes and Considerations me there unto moving do hereby Manumit enfranchize and absolutely set free the following Negroes hereinafter mentioned to wit, Diniah, Stepheney, Alse, Roady and Joseph to be free and at…
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Last Will and Testament Maria America 1917
I Maria America widow of James America, deceased, of Dover, Delaware being of sound mind, memory and understanding do make and publish this as and for my last will and testament, hereby revoking and making void any and all wills at anytime heretofore made by me, IMPRIMIS: I order and direct my Executor hereinafter named…
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Deed James America and wife to Alfred Williams 1871
This Indenture, Made the nineteenth day of December in the year of Our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy one, Between James America, of the Town of Dover, Kent County and State of Delaware and Electora his wife of the one part, and Alfred Williams of the Town, County and State aforesaid of the…
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