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

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Record #1090 from Abstracts of the Wills and Administrations of Accomack County, Virginia 1800-1860

County Accomack
Name West, Abel
Date (written/proved/probated or recorded) 22 May 1816/24 Jun 1816
Abstract To my Negro woman Nelly 2 acres on Occohannock next to creek adjoing Mrs. Galt's during her life. To all the Negroes which belonged to me the land laying above the Neck Road, supposed to be 200 acres, it being part of the land where I now live to them & their heirs forever on the female side in common among them all as a place of refuge & also 30 barrels of corn & 1,000 weight of pork, all the flax, all the flax, wool & leather that may be in the house at my death. To my men Joshua, Will, Sam, Parker, Edmund & Adams $40 each should they finish the crop.
Main Source Reference 1816-17 w&c, p. 26

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