Tag: Kent County Delaware
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Deed John Woodall & wife to Moses Merica 1862
This Indenture made the twenty second day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty two. Between John Woodall of Little Creek Hundred Kent County and State of Delaware and Anna M his wife on the one part and Moses Merica of Dover Hundred in Kent County aforesaid of…
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Negro Alexander Manumission from Abraham Moore 1817
Know all men by these Presents, That I Abraham Moore of Duck creek hundred in Kent County and State of Delaware do by these presents manumit and enfranchise a certain Negro man named Alexander now about the age of twenty eight years and the proper slave of me the Said Abraham Moore to be free…
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Negroes Amia & Ellen Manumission from Jacob Biddle 1816
Know all men by these presents that I Jacob Biddle of the Village of Milford in the County of Kent & State of Delaware for divers good causes and Consideration me hereunto moving do hereby Manumit enfranchise and absolutely set free my Negro Woman named Amia to be free and at her full & perfect…
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Negro Rachel Ayers Manumission from Joshua Nickerson 1817
Know all men by these presents that I Joshua Nickerson of Kent county in the State of Delaware for divers good causes and considerations me hereunto moveing hath and by these presents doth manumit emancipate Liberate an set free and at full liberty a femal negro the slave of me the said Joshua Nickerson named…
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Manumission Negro Samuel Porter from Levin Rickards & David Walton Admr. 1815
Know all men by these presents that I Levin Rickards Executor of Nathaniel Rickards late of the County of Kent & State of Delaware deceased Have & by these presents do agree and acknowledge that a Certain Negro Man named Samuel Porter late the property of the Said deceased Shall be free & at his…
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Manumission Ruth and others from Jonathan Manlove 1801
Know all men by these presents that I Jonathan Manlove of the Vilage of Milford in the county of Kent and State of Delaware do hereby manumit enfranchise and absolutely free ???? ???? the following Black People or negroes in manner and form and at such time & times as herein after expressed that is to…
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Negro Isaac Manumission from Outten Davis 1826
Whereas I Outten Davis of St Jones Neck and hundred in the County of Kent in the State of Delaware hath this day to wit this twenty first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty Six purchased of a Certain Samuel M Wharton of St Jones neck…
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Manumission Negro Cynthia from James Johnson 1816
Know all men by these presents that I James Johnson of Mispillion hundred in the County of Kent and State of Delaware ^Surveyor for certain Causes and Considerations me hereunto moving do hereby Manumit Enfranchise & set free my negroe Girl Cynthia, aged about Eleven years at and after the first day of January Eighteen…
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Manumission of Diana & her children by Thomas Tomlinson 1834
Know all men by these presents that I Thomas Tomlinson of Kent County and State of Delaware from motives of benevolence and humanity have manumited and hereby do manumit and set free from slavery a certain negro woman named Diana and all her children that she now has or may have except Catharine born the…
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Negro George Hill Manumission from Reuben Anderson 1819
Know all men by these presents that I Reuben Anderson of the County of Kent & State of Delaware for divers good Causes & consideration me hereunto moving do Manumit, Enfranchise and absolutely set free a certain negro man named George Hill to be free and at his perfect liberty since the twentieth day of…
