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

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Record #48 from Handsell Plantation Enslaved Peoples Database

Name Comfort
Slaveowner John Rider to James Billings to Ann Billings Lockerman
Date of Birth Bef 1740
Manumitted
Reference Source 1748 Probate
Content Mother of Alse by 1755. Rider sells to Billings for 45 pounds. Comfort is at Billings home plantation (60 acre part Weston) in 1748
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