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

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Record #10 from Free Black Families of Colonial Delmarva (abstracted by Paul Heinegg)

State Maryland
County (Primary) Talbot
Other Counties
Family Name Buckley
Family History Notes Elizabeth Buckley, born say 1732, was a spinster white woman living in Talbot County in June 1752 when the court convicted her of having a "Mulatter" child. The court sold her for seven years and her child for thirty-one [Judgment Record 1751-5, n.p.]. She may have been the mother of i. William, head of a Talbot County household of 2 "other free" in 1800 [MD:514].
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