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

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Record #7 from Handsell Plantation Enslaved Peoples Database

Name Algernon
Slaveowner Mary N Steele to Charles H Steele
Date of Birth
Manumitted
Reference Source 1836 Will
Content ?I give him a young negro man named Phill (son of Lucy) and another called Algernon and his choice of a young negro woman, also Milly, her son James and daughter Henritta all to served him till they are thirty-five, except Milly who is past her age of being liberated)?
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