Tag: Sussex County
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Estate Inventory – George Prettyman 1797-1808
Inventory of George Prettyman Goods & Chattles 1804 An Inventory of the goods and chattels of George Prettyman late of Sussex county deceased, appraised in current money of the State of Delaware, by us the Subscribers (being thereto lawfully authorized and sworn) the thirteeth day of April – Anno Domini…1804. … Negroes, Negroe Woman Named…
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Will George Prettyman 1797
In the Name of God Amen I George Prettyman of the County of Sussex and State of Delaware, being Weake in Body, but of sound memory Blessed by god do this 5th day of February in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety seven make and Publish this my Last will…
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Manumission Negro Girl Lucy from Hannah Turner 1778
Whereas my Father Isaac Turner of Queen Anns County in the Province of Maryland died intestate & left a number of Negroes in Slavery to which I was intituled by an Act of Assembly of said Province to a Dividend with the other children. And Whereas my Step-father Samuel Rowland of Sussex County hath this…
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Manumission Girl Frances from Samuel Rowland 1778
I Samuel Rowland of Sussex County on Delaware Yeoman do hereby manumit & set absolutely free my Negro Girl called Frances aged about sixteen years, so that she shall henceforth be deemed adjudged and taken for & as a free Woman to all Intents & Purposes and at Liberty to act for herself without the…
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Manumission Negroes Esther & Children from Alexander McCay 1777
Alexander Mccay of Cedar Creek hundred in the County of Sussex on Delawa do hereby manumit and set absolutely free all my Negroes as hereafter particularly named to wit Woman named Esther (whom I manumitted some Time ago) and her three children Viz her Girl Esther aged seven years, her Girl named Alice aged five…
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Will Robert Frame 1801
In the Name of God Amen, I Robert Frame, of the County of Sussex in the State of Delaware, being in the full possession of my faculties, but fearing the Sickness that I am Seized with may put and end to my life, do ordain this my last Will and Testament Bequeath to God, a…
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Manumission Levi Oliver to Negro Esther 1776
Know all Men by this Instrument of Writing that I Levi Oliver of Sussex County on Delaw, do hereby manumit & set absolutely free my Negro Girl named Esther aged eleven years and three Months, so that henceforth she shall be deemed adjudged & taken as and for a free Persons; and when she arives…
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Manumission Joshua Spencer to Negroes 1775
To all whom this may come Know ye that I Joshua Spencer of Cedar Creek Hundred in Sussex County on Delaware do hereby manumit and set absolutely free all my Negroes, hereafter particularly named Towitt my Negro Man named Peter aged upwards of twenty one years, Negro Woman named Jane aged near thirty years, Negro…
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Manumission Catharine Spencer to Negroes Catharine & Richard 1775
To all whom this may come Know Ye, that I Catharine Spencer of Sussex County on Delaware Widow do hereby from and apprehension of it’s being my Duty manumit and set absolutely free my Negroes hereafter named Towitt my Negro Woman named Catharine aged about fifty five years, also my Negro man named Richard aged…
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Manumission Sundry Negroes From Anthony S. Vickers 1809
Know all men by these presents that I Anthony S. Vickers of Dagsboro Hundred in the County of Sussex and State of Delaware do here for Various considerations me thereunto moving manumit set free and emancipate from my Service the following negroes two Negro men Named Benjamin and Joseph one Negro woman named Tamer and…
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