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Category Archives: Manuscript Records

039 Road Book A – January 19, 1799

April 14, 2013by Levi Leave a comment

Dutchess County fs. We the subscribers William Emott and John P Vemont overseers of the Poor for the town of Poughkeepsie. And. We Teunis Tappen and Samuel Luckey two of […]

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Manumission, Manuscript Records, Road Book A

037 Road Book A – February 22, 1799

April 14, 2013by Levi Leave a comment

Dutchess County fs. We the Subscribers William Emott and John P Vemont overseers of the poor of the town of Poughkeepsie, and we the sub[scribers] being two of the Justices […]

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Manumission, Manuscript Records, Road Book A

027 Road Book A – May 19, 1795

April 14, 2013by Levi Leave a comment

Gentlemen Agreeably to the Republican Spirit of the Constitution of our country I have a desire to manumit my negro slave Tone supposing that he comes within the description of […]

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Manumission, Manuscript Records, Road Book A

026 Road Book A – June 4,1794

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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 […]

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Manumission, Manuscript Records, Road Book A

024 Road Book A – November 19, 1790

April 14, 2013by Levi Leave a comment

Entered this nineteenth day of November 1790 the following Copy of the manumission of a negro slave viz: We Peter Tappen & Tunis Tappen two of the Justices of of […]

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Manumission, Manuscript Records, Road Book A

023 Road Book A – February 9, 1786

April 14, 2013by Levi Leave a comment

Entered this Ninth Day of Feby in the year of Our Lord one thousand seven Hundred and Eighty Six A Bill of Sale Executed by Matthew Van Kuren of Poughkeepsie […]

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Bill of Sale, Manuscript Records, Road Book A

017 Road Book A – May 19, 1773

April 14, 2013by Levi Leave a comment

Dutchess County} So Enter’d and Recorded the NIneteenth Day of May in the Year of Our Lord One thousand seven Hundred and seventy three a Bill of Sale Executed By John McBride […]

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Bill of Sale, Manuscript Records, Road Book A

016 Road Book A – May 1, 1773

April 14, 2013by Levi Leave a comment

Dutchess County {Entered & Registered this sixth Day of January in the year of Our Lord one Thousand seven hundred and seventy three a Bill of Sale executed by Peter Harris of […]

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Bill of Sale, Manuscript Records, Road Book A

002 Road Book A – October 23, 1769

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Dutchess County} Entered and Registered on the Twenty Third Day of October in the year of our Lord one Thousand seven Hundred and sixty Nine a Bill of Sale Executed […]

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Bill of Sale, Manuscript Records, Road Book A

OVER 001: Examination of Benjamin Furman – January 23, 1807

April 14, 2013by Levi Leave a comment

Dutchess County fs. The Examination of Benjamin Furman taken upon oath before us the 23 Jany. says he twenty nine years of age, and was born free, that his grandmother was a white […]

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