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

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Record #1418 from Wills from Caroline, Kent, and Talbot Counties of Maryland, 1688-1886

County Talbot
Liber:Folio JHH10:299
Date of Will (Written) 9/19/1857
Probate Date 6/25/1858
Name of Deceased/Testator John Dunning
Heirs/Legatee Negroes
Abstract shall be free as they respectively attain the ages of males at thirty and females at 28 years of age. And I declare them to & their issue to be free at above named ages

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