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

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Record #422 from Abstracts of the Wills and Administrations of Accomack County, Virginia 1800-1860

County Accomack
Name Glen, James
Date (written/proved/probated or recorded) 21 Dec 1846/29 Nov 1847
Abstract To wife Kitturah Glen $500. All my slaves (Charels, Alice, George, Moses, Sam, Jacob, Henry, Abraham, Isaac, Mary, Rachel, Lewis, John & Thomas) to be free at age 35 provided they leave the state of Virginia within 12 months after they arrive at said age & if they do not leave then to my wife Kitturah Glen during her life & then to my brother Edmund Glen, my sister Margaret Mapp, my nieces Ann J. Chnace, Margaret R. Beach, Elizabeth Floyd, Sarah C. Floyd, Margaret Nock, Charlotte Savage, Mary C. LeCato, Elizabeth Chandler & my nehew William T. Fosques.
Main Source Reference Will 1846 to 1882 w, p. 29.

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