Tag: Slavery
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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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Manumission Negro Jacob Conwell from John Conwell CC 1816
Know all men by these presents that I John Conwell (CC) of the County of Sussex and State of Delaware being now the sole owner and having the entire and exclusive right to a certain negro man known by the name of Jacob aged thirty one years or thereabouts Do for certain good reasons me…
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Manumission Negro Milby from Williams Rickards Senr. 1813
Know all men by these presents that I William Rickards Senr. of Sussex County and State of Delaware for Divers good causes me thereunto moveing Do hereby manumit and set free my negro man named Milby aged Twenty five years old or there about from me and my said Executors administrators or assigns from the…
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Manumission of Diana & her children by Thomas Tomlinson 1834
Know all men by these presents that I Thomas Tomlinson of Kent County and State of Delaware from motives of benevolence and humanity have manumited and hereby do manumit and set free from slavery a certain negro woman named Diana and all her children that she now has or may have except Catharine born the…
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Negro George Hill Manumission from Reuben Anderson 1819
Know all men by these presents that I Reuben Anderson of the County of Kent & State of Delaware for divers good Causes & consideration me hereunto moving do Manumit, Enfranchise and absolutely set free a certain negro man named George Hill to be free and at his perfect liberty since the twentieth day of…
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Negro William Hawkins Manumission from John Baynard 1824
Know all men by these presents that I John Baynard of Kent County and State of Delaware for divers good causes and Consideration me hereunto moveing do hereby manumit anfranchise and absolutely Set free my Negro Man William Hawkins aged about twenty Seven years to be free and at his perfect liberty from the date…
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Negro Alexander Pope Manumission from Sarah Pope and Others 1817
To all whome it may Concern; We Sarah Pope late of the City of Augusta in the state of Georgia, but now of the village of Smyrna in the County of Kent & State of Delaware and Lydia Simpson and Margaret Simpson of the County of Kent and State of Delaware aforesaid Do hereby Manumit…
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Negro Ben Manumission from Samuel and Allen Talbott 1817
Know all men by these presents that whereas we Samuel & Allen Talbott one of Kent & the other of Sussex County in the State of Delaware did on the twenty fifth day of May eighteen hundred & fifteen among other things purchased of Benjamin Potter of the Village of Milford, County of Kent aforesd.…
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Negro Peter Manumission From John Purden 1817
Know all men by these presents that I John Purden of the town of Milford in Kent County & State of Delaware for divers good Causes & Considerations me thereunto moving do hereby manumit enfranchise and absolutely set free a certain negro boy belonging to me Peter previously the property of Thomas Green of whom…
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Negro Ben Smith Manumission from Daniel Walker 1817
Know all men by these presents that I Daniel Walker of Kent County in the State of Delaware for divers good causes and Considerations me hereunto moveing hath and by these presents doth manumit emancipate, liberate and set free and at full liberty my negro Ben Smith after he shall have served six years from…
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