2006-06
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 5/31/2006
1781 Dated, Quaker Slave Manumission, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Very Fine. Partly-printed Slave Manumission signed with the mark of Elizabeth Warder of Lower Makefield, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, "this seventh day of the ninth month," 1781. One page, 6" x 7". Normal age toning, otherwise nice and impressive. Original, red wax seal. Warder "set[s] free from bondage, my Negroe Woman named Ruth Williams; aged about Twenty years, and do... release...a ll claim whatsoever as to her person, or to any estate she may acquire.... Witnessed by James Moon and William Blakey and docketed on the back, "... Recorded in quarterly Meeting Book page the 28th." Ruth Williams was either the wife or the daughter of Virgil Williams, who had been freed by Elizabeth Warder some eight months earlier.
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