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

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Record #3379 from Wills from Caroline, Kent, and Talbot Counties of Maryland, 1688-1886

County Kent
Liber:Folio 11:106
Date of Will (Written) 11/8/1820
Probate Date 12/4/1828
Name of Deceased/Testator Matthew Tilghman
Heirs/Legatee Harriet Tilghman - wife (daughter of Richard Hynson late of Kent Co.)
Abstract My Negro man Anthony who I bought of William Barroll and his wife Margaret with her daughter Mary, the negro woman Ann one of the house servants. In a former will I directed my negro be free but I must now alter that. Upon my arrival in Louisianna I expect to sell my land and my negroes to be hired out and I recommend to them James Thomas formerly of Cecil Co Md to hire out my negroes for maintenance of my childrn and their mother's 1/3,

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