Lot 127
1781 Quaker Slave Manumission. 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 oblong octavo. Warder "set[s] free from bondage, my Negroe Woman named Ruth Williams; aged about Twenty years, and do…release…all claim whatsoever as to her person, or to any estate she may acquire…. Witnessed by James Moon and William Blakey and docketed on verso, "… Recorded in quarterly Meeting Book page the 28th." A 1½ in. strip of paper for mounting is affixed on verso of left margin. Normal aged toning, else Fine. Ruth Williams was either the wife or the daughter of Virgil Williams, who had been freed by Elizabeth Warder some eight months earlier.
Estimated Value $1,500 - 2,000.
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