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

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Record #367 from Abstracts of the Wills and Administrations of Accomack County, Virginia 1800-1860

County Accomack
Name Fisher, Leah
Date (written/proved/probated or recorded) 20 Sept 1842/31 July 1843
Abstract … All my title in my slaves be free & should I be entitled to set them free, it is my desire that they should be free immediately after my death namely Stephen, Inda, Sam, John, Joseph, Edmund, Isaac and said Inda's increase, Agnes and Mary & their increase & should anyone reduce the said Sam to his or her possession, it is my desire that he should also go free, as he has left the Commonwealth.
Main Source Reference Will, 1828-1846 w, p. 487.

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