Tag: Manumissions
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Manumission Jacob and Cassandra from Thomas Edmondson 1776
Know all Men by these presents that I Thomas Edmondson Farmer of Kent County on Delawa. do hereby manumit & set absolutely free my negro Man called Jacob aged about twenty eight years & my negro Girl called Cassandra aged about nine years; so that henceforth they shall be deemed adjudged & taken as for…
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Manumission Sundry Negroes from John Edmondson 1775
Know all Men by this present Instrument of Writing that I John Edmondson of Kent County on Delaware Farmer do hereby manumit and set absolutely free (from full Conviction of its being my indispensable Duty) the following Negroes To Witt My negro Man called Abram aged (as judged) about forty five years: Bett a Negro Woman…
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Manumission Negroes Peter and Phebe from Barthia Hazel 1776
Know all Men by these presents that I Barthia Hazel of duck creek Hundred & County of Kent on Delaware (Widow) do hereby manumit and set Absolutely free, negro Peter a Man aged near forty years (who has had his Liberty some Time back) and also my negro Girl named Phebe born the 7th Day…
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Manumission Negro Caesar from Robert Register 1776
Know all Men by these presents that I Robert Register of little creek hundred in Kent County on Delaware do hereby manumit & set absolutely free my Negro Boy Casar aged about eight years so that henceforth he shall be deemed adjudged and taken as and for a free Person (as if free born) and…
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Manumission Negroes Mariah and Sucke from Rebecca Jenkins 1776
Know all Men by these presents that I Rebeccah Jenkins Widow of Kent County on Delaware do hereby manumit & set absolutely free my negro Woman named Mariah aged about twenty two Years and her Child called Sucke aged about six years so that henceforth they shall be deemed adjudged & taken as & for…
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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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Will Robert Frame 1801
In the Name of God Amen, I Robert Frame, of the County of Sussex in the State of Delaware, being in the full possession of my faculties, but fearing the Sickness that I am Seized with may put and end to my life, do ordain this my last Will and Testament Bequeath to God, a…
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Manumission Negro Leah, from Curtis Jacobs 1813
Know all men by these Presents that I Curtis Jacobs have Bargained and Sold unto Leah Anderson one Negro Girl by the name of Leah aged Eight years of age, in the year Eighteen hundred and thirteen January the first & from that date I the afsd Jacobs doth warrant and defend the said Negro…
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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 Jonathan Emerson to Sundry Negroes 1776
Know all Men by this present Instrument of Writing that I Jonathan Emerson of murtherkiln Hundred of Kent County on Delaware Yeoman do hereby manumitt & set absolutely free all my Negroes as hereafter particularly named viz Negro Man called Mingo aged, as judged, near fifty years, Andrew a negro Man aged about thirty years,…
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