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

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Record #644 from Wills from Sussex County, Delaware, 1751-1883

State Delaware
County Sussex
Liber: Folio E5:28
Date (Signed) 3/10/1795
Date (Probate) 4/10/1795
Deceased Mary Wiltbank, widow of Lewes
Heirs Polly Shankland - daughter
Abstract my Negro woman named Nance "untill she arrives to Thirty years of age, at which age it is my Will and desire shall be free; and in case her husband Aaron is able and desirous of purchasing her freedom before, I desire she may be sold to him on reasonabe terms.

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