Antoni Reger Receipt for passage to America 11 May 1737

(The Document below with its translation was provided by the Reger WV Tree on ancestry.com posted by Larwvusa) [Below the document, Susan Snyder has re-written some of the text so that it can be easily read]

The bottom of the document states:

From Antoni Ruger, from or near Benken, Barbara
Wurtzin, his spouse and Elsbeth Scholerin
Her Mother who want to move to the
Pfalz for manumission each 10 £
Deduct by 500 £ Moving away means or property
Of Rudolph Lutzler near Benkke, Lienerd Heyer
His son in Law by his
Spouse Leana Lutzher who also
Are desireous of moving into Pfalz
For manumission @ £10.

*manumission means the act of liberating a slave.

 

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