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

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Record #540 from Wills from Sussex County, Delaware, 1751-1883

State Delaware
County Sussex
Liber: Folio L11:251
Date (Signed) 8/25/1855
Date (Probate) 9/4/1855
Deceased Elisha Carey
Heirs John C. Hazzard
Abstract named executor of the will and the testator's black children to be sold until they are 28 and then to be free

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