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

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Record #4030 from Wills from Dorchester, Somerset, Worcester & Wicomico Counties of Maryland, 1783-1919

County Dorchester
Folio Number THH 1:294
Probate Date 1/28/1854 will written 8/2/1848
Name of Deceased Henrietta Richardson
Heirs Daniel Muse - son of William H. Muse
Black Individuals Mentioned in Will to have Negro boy Jerome and the hire of him annually is to be applied to the education of Daniel and that Jerome not to be sold during the minority of Daniel "unless the said Jerome should be guilty of such impropriety as the Orhpans Court of Dorchester County may deem sufficient to justify his sale"

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