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

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Record #1697 from Wills from Sussex County, Delaware, 1751-1883

State Delaware
County Sussex
Liber: Folio D4:402
Date (Signed) 11/5/1790
Date (Probate) 9/10/1793
Deceased Rachel Hickman
Heirs Negro man Phillip
Abstract that he shall be a free man, not to work and to serve anybody after my death. Also half of all the corn and fodder that is made in the swamp and half the wheat that Phillips has sowec b himself.

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