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

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Record #14 from Handsell Plantation Enslaved Peoples Database

Name Anne
Slaveowner Mary Steele?
Date of Birth
Manumitted
Reference Source Letter 1821
Content Letter from Mary Steele Henry from Hambrooks. ?Give my love to Mamma..[Mary Nevett Steele] I hope they will find Nancy an acquisition as cook, Mr. Henry dined with them a few days since, and said they had an excellent dinner, and the best cooked he ever eat there, he thought, and we dined there together a few days before when I thought we had a dinner very nicely cooked by Anne, so that
Other Notes Anne appears to be at the Ogle House in Annapolis.

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