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Record #768 from Abstracts of Worcester Orphans Court Proceedings (Volumes 1-3), 1780-1832

County Worcester
Volume Number Volume 3:158
Book Number
Original Page Number MH28:60-63 1823-1825
Date of Court Session April 1823
Enslaved or Free Slave
Abstract of Record Littleton R. Purnell & Sewell Turpin to divide negroes from estate of John Bishop, Sr., in hands of Lemuel P. Spence, adm.; before Levin Conner; met at house of Rhoda Bishop in Snow Hill. list: George (70 yo), Caleb (50 yo), Shadrach (44 yo), Peter (31 yo), George (29 yo), Levin (27 yo), Littleton (23 yo), Daniel (8 yo), Abner (6 yo), Comfort (35 yo), Gatty (24 yo), Phillis (21 yo, infirm), Linda (13 yo), Ann (10 yo), Hetty (7 yo), Aralanta (4 yo), Julian (4), Joe (10 yo), Amanda (8 yo), Milcha ? (6 yo), Mahala (14 yo), increase: Edmund (9 mos.), John (2 yo) Distribution: to Mrs Rhoda Bishop, widow: George, Peter, Daniel, Abner, Comfort, Linda, Ann, Aralanta, Edmund. to Isaac Porter & Letitia his wife, daughter of deceased: George, Milcah, Mahala to John P. Duffield & Zipporah his wife, daughter of deceased: Littleton, Phillis, Amanda to John, William, Ellen Mary, & Sally Ann Sturgin, children of John Sturgis, in right of their mother Nancy, daughter of deceased: Shadrach, Joe, Gatty, Julian, John to Elizabeth B. Truitt, daughter of Robert, in right of her mother Polly, daughter of deceased: Levin Caleb, Hetty (Levin P. Spence, guardian to Elizabeth).

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