To all whom it may Concern Know Ye that I the subscriber have this day Manumitted , set or given free, from any service, a Negroe boy named Bill, aged four years and nine months, being a son of my woman slave named Susan, in witness whereof I have hereunto affixed/assined my hand and seal in Poughkeepsie the Sixteenth day of March oneThousand seven Hundred and ninety three John Frear
In presence of Judeth X Hooper MARK JAMES ELDERKIN
The above is a true copy, entered the fourth day of June 1794
Attest —– Ebenezer Badger Town Clerk