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

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Record #718 from Abstracts of Maryland County Land Records, 1769-1803

State Maryland
County Worcester
Liber: Folio I:253
Date (written/recorded) 5/1/1773
Grantor: Grantee
Abstract Item signed by Rebecca Ennis [who possibly was too sick to read this so it may not have been granted] ? For natural love & affection for my grandson Boaz Ennis (son of Nathaniel Ennis)?have given to Boaz Ennis one Negro man named Isaac reserving for son Nathaniel the use service and labor of aforesaid Negro during his natural life and at his decease Isaac to go to Boaz.

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