Know all then by these presents that I Henry Wynkoop of Northampton Township in the County of Bucks Esquire for divers good causes and considerations me thereunto moving and of my own motion without any pecuniary consideration have manumitted and set free my Negro Woman Slave named and registered by the Name of Phebe, also my Negro Man named and Registered by the Name of Tony (both above the age of twenty eight years) and also my Negro Man Tom registered by the Same Name and under the age of Twenty eight years and by these presents do manumit and set free the said three Slaves, Phebe Tony and Tom for ever. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal this sixteenth day of December in the Year of our Lord one thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety three. ~ Henry Wynkoop Seal

Sealed and delivered in the presence of }
Jas. Linton
Wm Linton

Bucks fr? Seal Before me the Subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace for the County of Bucks Henry Wynkoop Esquire acknowledged the above Manumission to be his Act and Deed. Witness my Hand & Seal Dec^r 16th 1793.

Bucks fr Recorded in the Rolls Office for the County of Bucks in Lease Book No. 1 Page 232. Witness my Hand & Seal of office ~ Dec^r 16th 1793

Source:

Spruance Library
Bucks County Historical Society
84 South Pine Street
Doylestown, PA 18901

Bucks County Manumission
Folder 1