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

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Record #349 from Abstracts of Maryland County Land Records, 1769-1803

State Maryland
County Dorchester
Liber: Folio HD 16 i:295
Date (written/recorded) 8/29/1800
Grantor: Grantee
Abstract Jeremiah Pattison being owner and in possession of a Negro man named Nearus aged about 40 years old and being and willing and desirous of liberating and manumitting the said fellow do hereby manumit and free the said Negro man from this time forward.

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