This is to certify all whom it may concern /th/ That I have manumit and set free my Negro man Named Abraham about Twenty one years of Age To all Intense and purpose agreeable to a Law of the Legislature of the State of New York Passed the the twenty ninth Day of March one thousand seven hundred and ninety nine as witness my hand and seal the Twenty Eight Day of February 1801 Poughkeepsie Town February 28th 1801 Benjamin F Jaycock [galruit] Jaycock John Van tassel + his mark  Recorded the 6th Day of October 1803 Rich.d Everitt Town Clark