Tag: Mispillion Hundred
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Negro John Manumission from Molton Rickards 1819
Know all men by these presents That I Molton Rickards of the village of Milford County and State aforesaid for divers good causes and Considerations me hereunto moving do hereby Manumit Enfranchise and abasulitly set free my Negro boy named John from and after the sixteenth day of April in the year of our Lord…
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Negro Abraham Manumission from Margaret Baynard 1819
Know all men by these presents that I Margaret Baynard one of the administrators of the goods & chattles rights and credits of John Baynard late of Kent County State of Delaware and who died intestate do hereby liberate enfranchise manumit & set free from Slavery Abraham (a negro belonging to the estate of the…
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Manumission Negroe Catharine Cohee from James Finsthwait 1815
Know all men by these presents that I James Finsthwait of Mispillion hundred, Kent County and State of Delaware, for divers good causes and considerations, do by these presents manumit, liberate and set free, a certain negro woman named Catharine Cohee aged forty years or thereabouts, and do hereby further agree, that the said Catharine…
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Manumission Negro Robert from James Finsthwait 1815
Know all men by these presents that I James Finsthwait of Mispillion hundred, Kent County, in the State of Delaware for divers good causes and considerations, do by these presents manumit, liberate and set free a negro man Named Robert, which formerly belonged to the estate of Matthew Clark, which said negro I sold to…
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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 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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Transfer of Slave Amynta and Land by Eleanor Montgomery to William Montgomery 1778
This Indenture made this third day of August in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy eight by Between Eleanor Montgomery of Mispillion Hundred in Kent County afsd widow of the one Part, and William Montgomery son of the afsd Eleanor Montgomery of the other Part. Whereas a Marriage is intended…
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Transfer of Slaves Flora and Chloe by Eleanor Montgomery to Ann Montgomery 1778
This Indenture made this Third day of August in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy eight by and Between Eleanor Montgomery of Mispillion Hundred in Kent County on Delaware widow of the one Part and Anne Montgomery of the same County daughter of the said Eleanor Montgomery of the other…
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Power of Attorney, Isaac (Isaac Miller) to James Johnson 1791
Know all men by these Presents that I Negroe Isaac, commonly called Miller Isaac, and is now a free man of Mispillion Hundred in Kent County and State of Delaware, do by these make ordain constitute and appoint my Trusty Friend James Johnson, the elder of the afsd. County and State, to be my true…
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Manumission Negro Alce from Sarah Woodmansee 1804
Know all men by these presents that I Sarah Woodmansee of mispillion hundred and county of Kent and State of Delaware being the sole owner and having the entire and exclusive right and property of a woman named Alce aged About thirty years_ do for certain good reasons me thereunto moving manumit liberate and fully…
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