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

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Record #1138 from Wills from Caroline, Kent, and Talbot Counties of Maryland, 1688-1886

County Talbot
Liber:Folio JP9:79
Date of Will (Written) 7/3/1835
Probate Date 6/13/1837
Name of Deceased/Testator Samuel Harrison
Heirs/Legatee Negroes
Abstract all Negro men now of age 21 are to be free and all the remainder of Negroes are to be free, the women when they are of age 30 at the time of testator's decease, and after testator's decease all the men who are of 30 and older

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