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

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Record #392 from Abstracts of Maryland County Land Records, 1769-1803

State Maryland
County Worcester
Liber: Folio P:15
Date (written/recorded) 5/31/1793 6/1/1793
Grantor: Grantee
Abstract Manumission of slaves. Nathaniel Dixon, the subscriber, "from mature deliberation?and full persuasion in my own mind that freedom is the natural right ofall mankind an dbeenin possession of the fifteen following Negroes": Phillis ages 30, Phely aged 29, Comfort aged 17, Cate aged 12, Amy aged 10, Joesph aged 4, Leven aged 2, Patience aged 15, Jobe aged 12, Leven aged 10, Littleton aged 9, Susan aged 6, Jacob "freeborn" aged 4 years, Nancy aged 2 years, William 1 year; do manumit and free them.

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