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

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Record #581 from Abstracts of the Wills and Administrations of Accomack County, Virginia 1800-1860

County Accomack
Name Laws, Keziah
Date (written/proved/probated or recorded) 10 oct 1828/27 July 1829
Abstract … To Robert James…Slaves Toby, Nanny, Joshua & Jacob to be free at my decease. … Balance to remain in the hands of my Extr. [John Savage & George Warner] to be given and applied to the use of aforesaid Negroes as they may need it. Also my lands to be rented out & the product to be distributed among aforesaid Negroes, or in the event their race becoming extinct, then to my niece Polly Hope, daughter of Charles....
Main Source Reference Will 1828-1846, w, p. 37.

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