Tag: Manumissions
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John Vining Negro Noncupative Will 1807
Be it Remembered that on the thirty first day of January in the year of our Lord one Thousand Eight Hundred and Nine Henry Hoffeker did Exhibit to me Nathaniel Smithers Register of Kent county in the State of Delaware for the probate of wills etc an Instrument of writing purporting to be the Nuncupative…
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Manumission Stephen Sparks from Benoni and Charity Harris 1790
Kent County, Delaware November 18th 1790. This may certify all home it may concearn that we the Subscribers, do hereby Manumit, Discharge and Emanupate Stephen Sparks Negro, at or after the expiration of the full Term of Ten Years, and one Month from the date hereof, from Slavery, to be free from the Service of…
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Manumission Rachel and Abraham from John White 1791
To all Whom it may concern __ know all Men by these presents that I John White of the Town of Dover in the County of Kent in the State of Delaware have and by these presents do manumit set free and at perfect liberty a certain negro Girl named Rachel born 12th March 1779…
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Sale of Slave Toney to Himself at Sheriff’s Sale 1791
Know all men by these presents that I Andrew Barratt Esqr high Sheriff of Kent County on Delaware do hereby Certify that by Virtue of a Write of Venditioni Exponas to me directed issued out of the Court of Common pleas of said County I did among other things set up at public Vendue a…
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Manumission Hannah and Sarah from Charles Nixon 1790
Know all Men by these presents that I Charles Nixon of Kent County & State of Delaware for and in Consideration of the Sum of fifteen pounds have granted Bargained & Sold to John Freeman One negroe Woman named Hannah late the property of Preston Young deceased together with her female child three Years old…
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Manumission Benjamin by James Scotten 1791
Whereas a negro man named Benjamin has been held by me a slave, but being convinced of the errors of slavery, I do hereby, for my self, my Heirs, Executors, Administrators and Assigns, give up all right and title, to the said Benjamin and he is from this time free; No longer subject to my…
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Manumission Black Pompy from John and Sarah Coppage 1788
Recd. January the Sixteenth 1788 of Black Pompy the sum of Forty Pounds it being in full for his freedom. As Witness our hands, this 16th Day of January One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty-eight. 1788. John Coppage Sarah Coppage Witness, present. John Gibbs William Frasier Nancy Coppage a true Copy Test Francis Many Recordr Delaware,…
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Manumission Stephen Toney from Elizar Butler and John Howard 1792
We the Subscribers do hereby for ourselves our Heirs Executors, and Administrators absolutely liberate and set free a certain negro boy named Stephen Toney at or upon the fourteenth day of April One Thousand Eight Hundred and three. that from & after that day he shall be esteemed as a freeman. Given under our hands…
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Will David Lewis 1795
In the name of God Amen, I David Lewis of Murderkill Hundred Kent County in the State of Delaware farmer, being week in Body but of sound mind and memory Considering the uncertainty of this mortal life and certainty of death do make and Constitute, this my last Will and Testament in manner and form…
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Manumission Cloe from David Lewis 1792
To all to whom this may come know ye that I David Lewis of Kent County and Delaware State Farmer out of a consideration discharge of my duty, and doing Justice to her to hereby manumited and set absolutely free my following named Negro Woman named Cloe aged about Twenty years so that henceforth she…
