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

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Record #2159 from Wills from Caroline, Kent, and Talbot Counties of Maryland, 1688-1886

County Caroline
Liber:Folio JR C:475
Date of Will (Written) 10/31/1823
Probate Date 9/27/1823
Name of Deceased/Testator Abraham Evitts, deceased
Heirs/Legatee Negro woman Lydia
Abstract noncupitive will: as spoken by him on morning of 10/29/1823 - "he wished and desired that his negro woman Lydia for her good kind and obliging conduct for years passed whould be free and liberated from all persons from and after the death of his wife Mary or words to that amount."

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