14327813Warner Mifflin Emancipation document14327813Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-10-02 21:47:53 -0400.Description is written in: English, Latin script.Describing Archives: A Content Standard Rare Book and Manuscript Library Warner Mifflin Emancipation document Mifflin, Warner, 1745-1798 14327813 English /repositories/2/resources/6321 0.42 Linear Feet 1 document box 1775 Content Description

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).

 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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This collection is located on-site.

 Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Sandy Wilcox, 2018.

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Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

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 Slavery -- United States -- History Slaves -- Emancipation Manuscripts (documents) Warner Mifflin Emancipation document/repositories/2/archival_objects/17679531