Tag: White Clay Creek Hundred

• April 24, 2026

  Apprenticeship of Thomas Hill to Robert Phillips 1795

  This Indenture Witnesseth That Thomas Hill a Negro lately manumitted by Joseph Rotheram hath put himself and by these presents doth voluntarily and of his own free-will and accord put himself as an apprentice unto Robert Phillips of Christiana Hundred and (after the manner of an Apprentice) to serve the said Robert Phillips his heirs…
• April 24, 2026

  Manumission Thomas Hill from Joseph Rotheram 1795

  I, Joseph Rotheram, of White Clay Creek Hundred County of New Castle, and State of Delaware, do hereby set free from Bondage my negro man named Thomas Hill aged thirty two years in April instant, and do myself my executors and administrators, release unto the said Thomas Hall all my right and all claim whatsoever…