Tag: Sussex County
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Manumission Negro Paris From Samuel Finley 1797
I Samuel Findley of the County of Sussex and State of Delaware do hereby manumate and set free and absolutely Discharge my Negro man Pares aged 23 years So That here forth he Shall be Deemed and taken as and for a free person & act for and in behalf of him as any other…
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Manumission Negro Grace from Betsey Wingate 1807
Know all men by these presents that I Betsey Wingate of the County of Sussex and State of Delaware for divers good causes and considerations me thereunto moving do manumit my Negro Girl Grace aged Sixteen years, to be her own free woman the first day of January in the year of Our Lord Eighteen…
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Manumission Negr Saml from John Dashiell & Abigail Bell 1804
To all to whom these presents shall come Know Ye that We John Dashiell and Abigail Bell of Sussex County and the State of Delaware from and after the Expiration of the fifteenth day of October Eighteen hundred and Eleven do Manumit and enfranchise and set free Our Negro Man called Samuel Which we bought…
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Manumission Negro Nancy and others from Richard Green 1806
Know all Men by these presents that I Richard Green of Lewes & Rehoboth Hundred in the County of Sussex and State of Delaware do hereby Manumit liberate and set free from my service My Negro Woman Named Nancy the wife of Catto together with their Six Children Viz Solomon, George, Maria, Hester, Judy and…
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Manumission Negro Isaac from Stephen Warrington 1807
Know all men by these presents that I Stephen Warrington of the County of Sussex in the State of Delaware Yeoman being the sole owner and having the entire and Exclusive right and property of a Negro boy named Isaac aged fifteen years or thereabouts do for certain good reasons me thereunto moving manumit liberate…
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Manumission Abraham & Brener from Peter Hall 1807
This is to Certify that I do this day Liberate and Set free from my service my negro men Abraham and a Negro Woman called Brener and that they may enjoy the privilege of the Laws of the State and have the same right to enjoy them as any other free Negros or Mulattoes may…
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Manumission Negro Abner from Wm Kendrick 1809
Know all men by these presents that I William Kindrick of Cedar Creek hundred in the County of Sussex and State of Delaware doth by these presents Manumate Emancipate liberate and set free the following Negro the Slave of me the said William Kendrick to wit Abner which is now about Thirty one years of…
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Negro Samuel Manumission from Jesse Green 1823
Know all men by these presents that I Jesse Green of Sussex County and State of Delaware do hereby discharge Emancipate and set free my negro man Called and known by the name of Samuel aged twenty Eight years in march next. As witness my hand and Seal the thirty first Day of January in…
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Jonathan Draper N. Pass 1817
State of Delaware Kent County Sst. Personally appeared before me James Millechop one of the Justices of the peace in & for the said County, Thomas Abbott of Sussex County State Afsd aged about thirty three years and being in due manner sworn doth depose and say That the bearer here of Jonathan Draper Negro…
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Abstract Sussex County, Delaware Probate Estate File Sylvester Deputy 1804-1818
[Will] In the Name of God, Amen I Sylvester Deputy of Sussex County in the Delaware State, being in perfect Health 7 of sound Mind & Memory, do make & ordain this my last Will & Testament, & desire it may be Received as such. My Soul, I bequeath to the Almighty God who gave…
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