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

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Record #572 from Abstracts of Maryland County Land Records, 1769-1803

State Maryland
County Worcester
Liber: Folio N:239
Date (written/recorded) 4/27/1790 4/27/1790
Grantor: Grantee Bartly Townsend / Rhoda Townsend
Abstract For the natural love and affection that the grantor has for his daughter Rhoda, the grantor conveys to her one Negro boy Ned -- the grantor to hae the service of the boy for his natural life and then to Rhoda at his decease.

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