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

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Record #2032 from Wills from Caroline, Kent, and Talbot Counties of Maryland, 1688-1886

County Caroline
Liber:Folio JR C:129
Date of Will (Written) 7/12/1801
Probate Date 2/12/1808
Name of Deceased/Testator George Turner
Heirs/Legatee Mary Pierson North - daughter
Abstract to have Negro girl Lydian and Negro boy Stepney and to be left in the hands of testator's widow (Milcah Turner) who is empowered to hire out the Negroes as she directs and the money from their hire to be applied to the support of Mary and her child and Mary to have no power to hire or dispose of the said Negroes during the lifetime of her husband

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