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

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Record #423 from Abstracts of the Wills and Administrations of Accomack County, Virginia 1800-1860

County Accomack
Name Godwin, Edmund, Sr.
Date (written/proved/probated or recorded) 14 Feb 1835/30 March 1835
Abstract … To Rachel Ann Godwin a Negro girl Orpha. … To son Littleton Godwin … Negro boys Jacob & Stephen. .. To Obeah John (?) [Obediance Johnson (?)] a Negro man Nat to be hired out to support her and his mother. … I give Denard & Edward Fitchett a [Negro woman] and her increase for theri support. to my sons Edmund, willam and { ] Godwin the remainder of my Negroes.
Main Source Reference Will 1828-1846 w, p. 175.

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