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

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Record #100 from Free Black Families of Colonial Delmarva (abstracted by Paul Heinegg)

State Maryland
County (Primary) Talbot
Other Counties Kent, Somerset
Family Name Wallace
Family History Notes Members of the Wallace family of Maryland and Delaware were i. Richard, head of a Talbot County household of 4 "other free" and a slave in 1790 and head of a Mispillion Hundred, Kent County, Delaware household of 3 "other free" in 1800 [DE:103]. ii. Prince, head of a Kent County, Maryland household of 6 "other free" and a slave in 1800 [MD:168]. iii. Roger, head of a Murderkill Hundred, Delaware household of 5 "other free" in 1800 [DE:121]. iv. Isaac, head of a Murderkill Hundred, Kent County, Delaware household of 5 "other free" in 1800 [DE:129] and 5 in 1810 [DE:50]. v. Briscoe, head of a Kent County, Maryland household of 4 "other free" in 1800 [MD:156]. vi. Rachel, born about 1785, obtained a certificate of freedom in Anne Arundel County on 12 April 1813: dark complexion, about twenty eight years of age ... free born [Certificates of Freedom 1810-31, 33]. vii. Robert, born about 1790, obtained a certificate of freedom in Somerset County on 21 June 1825: born free in Somerset County ... black Complexion ... thirty five years of age [Certificates of Freedom 1821-32, 50].
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