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

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Record #704 from Abstracts of Maryland County Land Records, 1769-1803

State Maryland
County Worcester
Liber: Folio I:7
Date (written/recorded) 1/22/1772
Grantor: Grantee
Abstract Gift of Negroes. Thomas Smith, for and in consideration of the love and affection which he has for his daughter, Anna Gray Smith, and for his son Benjamin Dingley Smith, conveys to them a Negro girl named Siner and boy named Jesse. The service of said Negroes is reserved for Thompson until his children are of age. If both children should die before they are of age, then the said Negroes to Thompson's four sister: --(?Jediah King), Anna Gray, Sarah Roach and Mary Gray.

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