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

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Record #898 from Wills from Caroline, Kent, and Talbot Counties of Maryland, 1688-1886

County Talbot
Liber:Folio JP7:441
Date of Will (Written) 6/13/1812
Probate Date 3/15/1819
Name of Deceased/Testator Mary Roberts
Heirs/Legatee Negro "Old Nan"
Abstract executor to give William Gibson Tilghman the sum of $30 to put aside for the care of Old Nan "who was the nurse of my infant age and for whom on that account I entertain a particular affection". "and as my old nurse Nan is now blind and far advanced in life and in the ordinary case of nature cannot live long I do most earnestly recommend her to the benevolent attention of" William Gibson Tilghman

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