Judy later married a free man, James Miller. The executors bought.clothes for the two immediately and proceeded to erect their house, noting the costs in the Humphrey day book. He directed his executors to build Tom and India a "good saw'd log house " with a stone chimney. There was also another slave Tom to whom he left $20. Humphry also freed a woman, Judy, whose name, because of the period handwriting might also be read as "India." Humphry left her $10 as well as an "old walnut dressing table" and a pair of silver shoe buckles. They outfitted him for freedom with new clothing, the accounts meticulously kept by the executors in the day book which Humphrey started in 1779 and which is now in the possession of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. On the map of Radnor, the ten acres (and Caesar's two acres) lie in the township 's corner where Radnor, Lower Merion, and Haverford meet. Humphrey also left him 20 silver dollars which the executors started parceling out immediately. Caesar Waters also bought two acres 22 perches of land at some time before 1779 from Griffith Evans. Humphrey's "Servantman Cezar" received three acres of land. The adults were to be freed six months after his death, but the girls (apparently for their own protection ), not until the age of 20.
The article notes that in 1785 the will of Charles Humphry (owner of Pont Reading on Haverford Road) contained long and specific instructions on the care and welfare of his slaves.
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