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

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Record #1242 from Wills from Caroline, Kent, and Talbot Counties of Maryland, 1688-1886

County Talbot
Liber:Folio JP9:347
Date of Will (Written) x
Probate Date 6/17/1845
Name of Deceased/Testator Alexander B. Harrison
Heirs/Legatee Memorandum with various notations
Abstract Memorandum: A Negro girl belonging to the estate of Edward Sears and was bound to a Mr. Thompson of Baltimore was sick and delivered to the man who married the widow Sears, they report to me she died. I give to my daughter Emily a Negro girl called Hanna about 8 or 10 years of age. Also notes that Harrison made a will and codicil to same he had written in latter part of March 1841 in which he had given legacies of Negroes to his children except his daughter Emily who he had forgotten at the time of making will. He wanted to give his daughter Emily a negro girl called Hanna or Henrietta about 8 or 10 yo

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