Tag: White Clay Creek Hundred
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Apprentice Indenture Rachel Handy to Amelia Shadd 1842
This Indenture made this tenth day of September A.D. 1842 Witnesseth that Kendal Handy of White Clay Creek Hundred NewCastle County & State of Delaware (free man of Colour) Father of Rachel Handy a minor, hath, in the presence and with the approbation of William MCaulley a Justice of the Peace for New Castle County,…
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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…
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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…
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