Tag: Slavery
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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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Transfer of Slaves Peg and Nero from Eleanor Montgomery to Sarah Montgomery 1778
This Indenture made this Third day of August in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred Seventy eight by and Between Eleanor Montgomery of Mispillion Hundred in Kent County on Delaware widow of the one Part, and Sarah Montgomery of the ^said place daughter of the said Eleanor Montgomery of the other part.…
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Transfer of Slaves Hagar and Teena from Hannah Robbison to Daughters Mary Usher and Ann Nixon 1740
To all People to whom this Present writeing Shall come. I Hannah Robisson of Kent County on Delaware widdow, Sends Greeting Know yee, that I the said Hannah Robisson for and in consideration of the motherly love good will and Affection which I have and bear unto my Daughters Mary Usher and Ann Nixon as…
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Petition for Conveyance of Property Incl Slaves from Thomas Ringgold Decd to Benedict Brice 1778
To the Worshipful the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Kent upon Delaware. The Petition of John Galloway acting Executor of the Testament and last Will of Thomas Ringgold the Younger late of Kent County Maryland Esquire – Humbly sheweth. That Thomas Ringgold the Elder late of Kent County Maryland Esqr.…
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Sale and Manumission of Slaves Joyce and son Charles from Caesar Rodney to James McClement 1784
This Indenture of Bargain & sale made this twenty fourth day of May in the Year of our Lord one thousand Seven hundred and eighty Four Between Caesar Rodney Esqr. Of the County of Kent in the Delaware State of the one part and James McClement of the same place of the other part, Witnesseth…
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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…
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Lofland’s Record
From the Daily Gazette, Wilmington, Delaware Nov 2, 1872 I had heard about this law, where a convicted free person of color could be sold into slavery, but I had never seen the specifics in print. This is chilling. Elijah Prattis was a member of a large family of free African Americans who lived in…
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Sale and Manumission Renee and her Children from William Killen to Levin Jump 1786
This Indenture made the Seventeenth Day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty six Between William Killen of kent county in the State of Delaware Esqr. of the one part and Levin Jump of the same county and State Husbandman of the other part; Witnesseth that the said…
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Manumission Peter Jacob and Sally from Daniel Short
To all to whom these presents shall Come Greeting Know ye that I Daniel Short of Ins. in the County of Sussex in the State of Delaware Yeoman for Divers Good Causes me there unto Moveing have Released Acquited Exonerated and Discharged and By these presents do Release Acquit Exonerate and discharge my Negroes named…
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