COURT: Emancipation Daniel Moore to Negro Jack, 1803, 1814, Huntingdon County, PA

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Emancipation Daniel Moore to Negro Jack
Miscellaneous Book O-1
Pages 275-276
Recorder of Deeds 
Huntingdon County PA

Emancipation Daniel Moore to Negro Jack
Be it remembered that I Daniel Moore of Frankstown township do hereby 
and promise that Negro Jack now held by me a slave being about twenty-
four years of age shall be emancipated and set free at the end of ten 
years from this time the said negro Jack having served during this time 
well.

S/Daniel Moore
Witness A. Henderson

Before me one of the Justices of the peace in and for the county 
aforesaid personally appears Robert Allison who being duly sworn 
according to law did depose and say that he was well acquainted with 
Andrew Henderson in his lifetime now deceased that he repeatedly seen 
him write and sign his name having for many years lived with him that 
the above emancipation in writing is in the handwriting of the said 
Andrew and that the name A. Henderson thereto subscribed as a witness 
and also indorsement on this paper in the word "emancipation or 
promised Daniel Moore to Negro Jack left in my hands or my executors or 
administration Andrew Henderson 23rd August 1803 is the proper hand 
writing of the said Andrew Henderson to the best of this deponents 
knowledge and belief and further saith not.

Sworn and subscribed this 7th day of Dec. 1814
Coram John Miller

S/ H. Allison
True copy compared with the original the 8th day of Dec. 1814.
William Steele Recorder