Manumissions, Indentures, and other

(AMS 051, Box 1/ microfilm series IV reel 20)

"Know all men by these presents that I Peter Rich of Caroline County in the state of Maryland Gentleman in consideration of sixty pounds to me paid for by Richard Allen ..."

"I Robert Bayly of the City of Philadelphia do here by set free from bondage my mulatto woman..."

"Know all men by these presents that I Marie Rose Louis of the City of Philadelphia in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania late from the French West Indies..."

"I Joshua Moore of Perqumons County State of North Carolina from the conviction of my own mind being fully persuaded that freedom is the natural right of all mankind..."

"I know all whom it may concern that I Thomas Irwin of the City of Philadelphia, by these presents do agree to set my Negro, James, Free..."

"Whereas my brother Isaac Blight of the Island of Jamaica Merchant hath sent under my Care a Negro boy Named Frank..."

"I Samuel Stevenson of the Township of Nottingham County of Burlington & Province of West Jersey..."