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

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Record #3375 from Wills from Caroline, Kent, and Talbot Counties of Maryland, 1688-1886

County Kent
Liber:Folio 11:85
Date of Will (Written) 5/22/1828
Probate Date 6/10/1828
Name of Deceased/Testator George Neal
Heirs/Legatee Negroes
Abstract girl Ann to be free on 1/1/1834. Girl Fanny to be free on 1/1/1836. Girl Emmeline to be free 1/1/1838. Boy Jim to be free on1/1/1839. Boy Isaac to be free on 1/1/1840. Mary Ann to be free on 1/1/1842. Negro boy Felix to be free on 1/1/1856. Woman Polly Wright and her infant child Charles Henry shall be free at my death. [Felix granted certificate 12/29/1862 in margin]

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