Manumission deed for Mars Willson, by David Ford for the Estate of Isabella Kearny
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- Identifier
- NJS-SRC-00679
- Source Type
- Freedom or Emancipation Certificate
- Author
- David Ford
- Location Created
- Hanover
- Date
- May 7, 1806
- Transcript
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To all whom these presents come, know ye, that I, David Ford, Executor of the last will and testament of Isabella Kearny, late of the Township of Hanover in the County of Morris, in the State of New Jersey, in consideration, and in pursuance of an agreement heretofore made between the said Isabella Kearny, in her lifetime, of the one part, & Mars Willson, her Negro Slave, of the other part, and duly recorded in the Morris County Register of Manumitted Slaves, Lib. A, Fol 12. And also in consideration of the Powers and Trusts in me reposed by the last will and testament of the said Isabella Kearny deceased,have Emancipated, Manumitted, and set free, and by these presents, do Emancipate, Manumit, and set free, the said Negro Slave, named Mars Willson, aged thirty three years, and do hereby forever Discharge the said Mars Willson from Servitude. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this seventh day of May in the Year of our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Six.
David Ford
Executor to the Estate
of Isabella Kearny
Signed Sealed and Delivered
in the presence of
John J. Faesch
John M. Carter - Language
- English
- Format
- loose sheet of unlined paper with handwriting
- Archival Collection
- Morristown Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution (Private Collection)
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Manumission certificate for Mars Willson, by David Ford for the Estate of Isabella Kearny
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- Record Contributor
- Susan Bailey
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