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

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Record #646 from Wills from Sussex County, Delaware, 1751-1883

State Delaware
County Sussex
Liber: Folio E5:30
Date (Signed) 4/5/1795
Date (Probate) 4/21/795
Deceased Bennet Worren (Warren)
Heirs Spicer Warren - son
Abstract When he is of full age, I give him a Negro boy named Jacob when the said Negro boy is 21 years old and then Jacob to be free. "The said Spicer Warren is to do his indever to learn the said Negro to read"

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