Edward H. Nabb Research Center for Delmarva History & Culture Enduring Connections: Exploring Delmarva's Black History

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Record #443 from Abstracts From the Land Records of Caroline County, Maryland

County Caroline
Land Record Book and Date Range H 1801 - 1804
Page Number 367
Document Dates 8 Mar 1803 - 2 June 1803
Abstract Negro Harkless of Caroline Co. (manumitted by Thos. Johnins Seth of Queen Anne's Co.), in cons. of the love and regard I have for my wife Rachel, whom I purchased of John Young, to pay for which I have lost many drops of grease, manumit and set free my wife Rachel - until the metropolis of Caroline Co. shall be rent to pieces by the explosion of cannon annoucing the erection of dry docks for the presentation of Ships of War.

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