Tag: Philadelphia Pennsylvania

• August 13, 2025

  Negro Ebenezer Harris Manumission from William A Budd & Mary L Budd his Wife 1824

  Know all men by these presents that we William A Budd & Mary L Budd wife of said William A Budd of the City of Phila and State of Pennsylvania for divers good Cause us thereunto moveing do Manumate Ebenezer Harris Negro (late the Property of Robert Wilson Decd. Of Kent County and State of…
• October 23, 2024

  Sale of Slave John to James Moore by John Wilson for a Term of Service 1784

  This Indenture of Bargain & Sale made this Eighteenth day of October anno Domini Seventeen Hundred and Eighty four Between Capt. John Wilson of the County of Kent in the Delaware State of the one part, and Capt. James Moore of the City of Philadelphia, in the State fo Pennsylvani of the other Part, Witnesseth…
• September 13, 2024

  Manumission Rachel from Thomas Bradford Jr. 1805

  Manumission Negro Rachel from Thomas Bradford, Junr. Know all men by these presents that I Thomas Bradford Junior of the City of Philadelphia State of Pennsylvania from motives of benevolence and humanity have manumitted and hereby do manumit and set free from slavery my negro Girl Rachel Aged about twenty two years, on Condition however…