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

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Record #3075 from Wills from Caroline, Kent, and Talbot Counties of Maryland, 1688-1886

County Kent
Liber:Folio 9:216
Date of Will (Written) 11/23/1812
Probate Date 4/27/1813
Name of Deceased/Testator Casandra Wilkerson, spintress
Heirs/Legatee Negroes
Abstract all my black people which I have not manumitted are to be free and the younger children to be taking care of by their father or mother so as not to burden the state. My negro Nancy, my former slave, but now free, to have use of my personal estte consisting of my bed and furniture, 2 milch cows and a cow calf, all my sitting chairs, pots, chests, trunks, barrels and all things which I may possess

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