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

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Record #686 from Abstracts of Maryland County Land Records, 1769-1803

State Maryland
County Worcester
Liber: Folio M:468
Date (written/recorded) 1/1/1789
Grantor: Grantee
Abstract Joseph Green and wife for the love and affection they have for daughter Catty White "and because she is by sickness become a cripple not having the common use of one side of her body and limbs" grant to her Negro boy George who is 4 years old. George is to be the property of Catty at the death of Mary, wife of Joseph and at the decease of Catty to return to Joseph.

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