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

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Record #3143 from Wills from Caroline, Kent, and Talbot Counties of Maryland, 1688-1886

County Kent
Liber:Folio 9:332
Date of Will (Written) 12/29/1814
Probate Date 2/3/1816
Name of Deceased/Testator John C. Hynson
Heirs/Legatee Negroes
Abstract residue of my negroes I free at discretion of devisers on their fidelity and conducted. "I have experienced a great evil in manumitted them at a certain period therefore the legatees can set them free when they choose."

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