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

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Record #226 from Abstracts of the Wills and Administrations of Accomack County, Virginia 1800-1860

County Accomack
Name Conquest, Richard
Date (written/proved/probated or recorded) 11 Aug 1858/27 Sept 1858
Abstract …my slave Oliver to serve my wife during her life & then to be free & Oliver to have a house & lot containing 10 acres, which is intended as a home for him & his mother & old slave Isaac Conquest should he live to need a home there & after the death of Oliver to my daughter Evyline J. Conquest .... My slave Edmund to be hired out for 10 yrs after my demise & then he shall be free & the money from the hire to my daughter Evyline J. Conquest.
Main Source Reference Will 1846-1882 w, p. 278.

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