Warner Mifflin Emancipation document, 1775

Creator:: Mifflin, Warner, 1745-1798
Extent:: 0.42 Linear Feet (1 document box)
Language:: English
Scope and content:: An extraordinary manumission document created by Warner Mifflin, of Delaware, in 1775. There are also two copies of the book "Life and Ancestry of Warner Mifflin" compiled by Hilda Justice, 1905
Biographical / historical:: Warner Mifflin is the grandfather of Sydney Gay's wife, Elizabeth Neall Gay, and an early Quaker abolitionist from Delaware. The Mifflins and the Gay family (of the Sydney Howard Gay papers) eventually became interconnected (Mifflinwas the grandfather of Sydney Gay's wife).

Catalog record:: View in CLIO
Local call number:: /repositories/2/resources/6321
Acquisition information:: Gift of Sandy Wilcox, 2018.
Accruals:: Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
Rules or conventions:: Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Preferred citation:: Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Warner Mifflin Emancipation Document; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

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