Washington District of Columbia

Phillis Shiner Manumission
Furnished by : John Sharp

Levi Pumphrey }
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Phillis Shiner    } Recorded 13 June 1833

Manumission

                                                                                Know all men by these presents that I Levi Pumphrey of the city of Washington in the District of Columbia for divers good and sufficient causes me thereunto moving have manumitted emancipated set free and released from Slavery, a negro woman named Philis and her three children named Ann, Harriet and Mary Ann purchased by me at a sale of my fathers property - the said Philis being at this time aged about twenty five years and her three children aged as follows, Ann about four years - Harriet three years and Mary Ann, about four months the Said Negro women Philis is in good health and entirely competent to obtain a livelyhood for herself and children by her labor - And that I do by these presents manumit emancipate & set free and discharge from Labor & Slavery the said Philis and her three children the witness whereof I have subscribed my name and affixed my seal hereto this 11th day of June in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and thirty three -
Signed Sealed & delivered                                                                 Levi Pumphrey {SEAL}
in the presence of us

Robert Fenwick }
Jeremiah Elkin    }
District of Columbia
Washington County

                                                On this 11th day of June AD 1833 before me the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid personally appeared Levi Pumphrey and acknowledged the foregoing deed of Manumission to be his act and deed and the negro woman Philis therein named & her three children to be hereforth free manumitted & discharged from all manner of persons & claims whatsoever
                                                Acknowledged before
                                                                Jeremiah Elkins. J.P.
District of Columbia
                                                I William Brent Clerk of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia for the County of Washington, hereby certify that Jeremiah Elkins Esq whose name is signed above was at the time of Signing the Same and Still is a Justice of the Peace in and for the Said County duly commissioned and Sworn -
                                                In Testimony whereof I hereto
                                                Subscribe my name and the
                                {Seal of the}    Seal of Said Circuit Court at the
                                {Corporation} City of Washington this Eleventh day of
                                {Washington} June - A.D. 1833
                                                                [Signed] W. Brant

Two images from the District of Columbia Free Negro Registers 1821 -1861 volume 2.
The official title for this volume is Manumission and Emancipation Record 1821 -1862
but Dorothy Provine and other researchers and genealogists prefer the first title.

These manumission records are located in NARA Records Group 21, Records of the United States District Courts.
These two images are both dated June 1833 and are the manumission document for Phillis Shiner,
Michael Shiner's spouse and the couple's three children.
Note : DC Court officials spelled Phillis Shiner's name as both "Philis" and "Phillis".
See : Michael Shiner's Diary - entry for June 1833"