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

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Record #71 from Abstracts of Petitions to Southern County Courts, 1775-1867

Part of Series B
Microfilm Reel in Collection Series 13
Microfilm Frame on Reel 855
Accession Number (identifies petition on microfilm) 20382705
County Sussex
State Delaware
Year Legislative Petition Filed 1827
Abstract of Petition Cudge Hays, administrator of the estate of Mahala Kershaw, deceased, explains that Mahala's estate is due early $300 from an 1823 court decision in the case of free black "Peter Robinson et al. v. Sarah Kershaw," widow of MItchell Kershaw.

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