This is to certify that I John Reade of the County of Dutchess & State of New York by virtue of a law of the State aforesaid do give all my right & title & forever abandon all right & title to a certain Female Child Named Margaret the mother of which child called Flora is bound to me & has about five years to serve at the Expiration of which time she will have her Freedom the said child has been Recorded at the Town Clark’s office of this Town agreeable to a Law of the state aforesaid,,Witness my hand & Seal this Fourteent day of June 1802 John Reade Sealed and deliovered In the presence of Robert L. Reade Recorded the 19th day of June 1802 Rich.d Everitt Town Clark