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

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Record #3096 from Wills from Dorchester, Somerset, Worcester & Wicomico Counties of Maryland, 1783-1919

County Somerset
Folio Number JP5:130
Probate Date 3/9/1847
Name of Deceased John Howard
Heirs William Broughton - friend
Black Individuals Mentioned in Will Named exec;utor & instructed that "If it should please God to prolong my life til after the death of my father and he should as he has often told me he intended to do so, bequeath me his negro manArnold..." Arnold is not to be sold but to be hired out until the youngest of testator's children comes of age and the proceeds of his hire used for educating and raising the children.

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