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

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Record #737 from Wills from Caroline, Kent, and Talbot Counties of Maryland, 1688-1886

County Talbot
Liber:Folio JP6:351
Date of Will (Written) 9/-/1808
Probate Date 12/10/1810
Name of Deceased/Testator John Coats
Heirs/Legatee Negro boy Fasing (living with Sidney, wife of Peter Johnson)
Abstract freedom - consigning him to the auspices of The Society for the Abolition of Freedom to be brought up by the society and taught and bound out to learn some useful mechanic business unti he attains the age of 21

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