| Part of Series | B |
|---|---|
| Microfilm Reel in Collection Series | 13 |
| Microfilm Frame on Reel | 182 |
| Accession Number (identifies petition on microfilm) | 20381604 |
| County | Sussex |
| State | Delaware |
| Year Legislative Petition Filed | 1816 |
| Abstract of Petition | In 1784, Wilson Rider of Somerset County, Maryland, published his will, bequesthing to his wife, Charity, "all his Negroes during her life and at her decease to go to his children and grandchildren" with the exception of Jacob. In 1785, following Wilson's death, Charles Rider, his son, became the executor of his estate; and after the son's death in 1801, Woolsey Waples, Charles's half-brother (they both had the same mother) became the executor of his estate. Waples later charges Joseph Aydelott and his wife, Mary (the remarried widow of Charles Rider, of Milford, Kent County, Delaware, and Sarah Moor and her two children, Wilson and Charity's daughter and grandchildren, with cheating him out of his inheritance. The defendants, he charges, failed to give him his fair share of the slaves. |
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