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

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Record #504 from Wills from Sussex County, Delaware, 1751-1883

State Delaware
County Sussex
Liber: Folio L11:117
Date (Signed) 2/15/1851
Date (Probate) 12/6/1853
Deceased Daniel Knowles of Nanticoke Hundred
Heirs Eliza Jane James - daughter
Abstract testator desires that his Negroes Letita, Louisa, Martin, Elizabeth, and George to be appraised as part of the personal estate and that they shall be accepted by the testator's children at their value and the testator's children to accept them according to seniority, and should the testator's children not accept them, then such of the slaves are to be sold by the testator's executor to good masters in Sussex County and the children not accepting such Negroes to be paid the value of them

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