Manumission certificate for a slave named George, signed by Radcliffe and Riker, New York City, 24 April 1817. Reproduced by permission of the New York Public Library, Slavery and Abolition Collection. Text of certificate (written words italicized):
By Jacob Radcliff Mayor, and Richard Riker / Recorder, of the City of New-York,
It is hereby Certified, That pursuant to the statute in such case made and provided, we have this day examined one certain [illegible] --- Negro Slave named George ----- the property of John [Delaney?] --- which slave is about to be manumitted, and he appearing to us to be under forty-five years of age, and of sufficient ability to provide for himself we have granted this Certificate, this twenty fourth day of April in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen
[Signed] Jacob Radcliffe
P Riker
Register's office Lib no. 2 of manumissions page 62 - / W F Slocum Register
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