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

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Record #98 from Instruments of Freedom, Deeds and Wills of Emancipation Northampton County, Virginia 1782 to 1864

Page 96
Name of Enslaver Major Andrews
Document type Will
Abstract Information about the Enslaved Person/People My desire is also that my Negro Man Luke shall be free at my death and have the priilege of building a House to live in one corner of my Land and ground sufficient for a Garden and potatoe patch. Signed Major Andrews 9 Dec 1806. Northampton Co. Book of Wills & Inventories No. 32 page 591
Date 12 Jan 1807.

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