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

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Record #3035 from Wills from Caroline, Kent, and Talbot Counties of Maryland, 1688-1886

County Kent
Liber:Folio 9:111
Date of Will (Written) 10/26/1810
Probate Date 12/5/1810
Name of Deceased/Testator Mary Burk
Heirs/Legatee Samuel Shields and Jane Shields and child Samuel
Abstract I free my negroes Samuel & Jane Shields. To negro woman Jane Shields her little infant Samuel until he is 21 and at which time I leave him free.

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