Tag: Sale of Slave

• February 17, 2026

  Kent Co DE Probate Estate Files – Robert O Pennewill 1850-1854

  Robert O. Pennewills Estate Inventory and Appraisement October 17, 1850 [partial] Negro Boy Daniel Crapper – Indentured servant to serve 3 yrs: from 18th October 1850… $100.00 Negro Boy Theodore Polk age about 17 years on the 27 March 1851 (so says his mother) slave until he is 25 years old $225.00 Negro Girl Hetty…
• January 31, 2026

  Sale of Slave Judah by David Peterkin Jr to MCall Medford 1768

  To all People to whom this Present Writing may Come I David Peterkin Junr of Mispillion Hundred in the County of Kent on Delaware farmer do Send Greeting Know ye that I the Said David Peterkin for and in Consideration of the Sum of Sixty Pounds Current money of the Government of the Counties of New…
• January 30, 2026

  Bill of Sale from Joel Clements Jr to Joel Clements Senr. 1835

  Know all men by these presents that I James Wooleyhand of Queen Anns County and State of Maryland for the consideration of the Sum of eighty seven dolls & fifty cts current money to me in hand paid by Joel Clements of the County and State aforesaid the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge have…
• October 3, 2025

  Bill of Sale and Manumission James Wiltbank from Nancy Hickman for Negro Moses 1798

  To all People to whom these Presents shall Come Know ye that I Nancy Hickman of the County of Sussex and State of Delaware (widow) owner of a certain negro Man named Moses, and Forty five years or thereabouts, fore and in consideration of the sum of Ninety Dollars, lawful money of  the United States…
• June 5, 2025

  Bill of Sale from Ann Cacey for Jacob 1814

  Know all men by these presents that I Ann Cacey of Duck Creek hundred Kent County and State of Delaware for and in Consideration of two hundred Dollars lawfull money of  the State afsd to me paid by William Kennedy of Smyrna in the hundred County & State afsd. the rect. whereof is hereby acknowledged…
• February 10, 2025

  Bill of Sale Outen Davis from Samuel M Wharton, Negro Isaac 1826

  Whereas I Samuel M Wharton of St Jones Neck and hundred in the County of Kent in the State of Delaware for and in Consideration of the Sum of Fifty five Dolls. to me in hand paid by Outten Davis of Same neck & hundred county and State afsd. Have granted bargained and Sold And…