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Box 19

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Contains 74 Results:

Janney, George F., manumission, 1812-08-13

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With this document, George F. Janney freed the following people from slavery: Jim (43 years old), his wife Lucy (22), and their two children Jim (3) and a younger unnamed child; Ned Brown (41); Tom (21); Nell (41) and her child Spencer (2); Rose (17) and her unnamed child (8 months); Remus (15); Davy (12); Alley (10). This document is marked as recorded by the Baltimore, Maryland County Court.

Dates: 1812-08-13

Newspaper account of Quaker Meeting for Worship at a theatre (Yorkshire, England), 1804 9mo 7

 File — Box: 19
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From a Doncaster paper, an account of a Quaker meeting for worship held in a theatre, at which two women spoke "on the Christian & moral duties," and a poem was posted on the theatre door stating that "This modern Den of Theives this Night / Becomes a House of Prayer." Possibly a satirical account.

Dates: 1804 9mo 7