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

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Record #246 from Abstracts of Worcester Orphans Court Proceedings (Volumes 1-3), 1780-1832

County Worcester
Volume Number Volume 2:133
Book Number 11
Original Page Number MH7:81 1806-1809
Date of Court Session August 1806
Enslaved or Free Slave
Abstract of Record Jeremiah Flowers' petition for guardianship of Ritta Flowers; states that Ritta, his brother's daughter, under 16 yo, has right to sundry negroes, which some years past were stolen from Dorchester Co., & are now in possession of Mr. Prentiss, in VA, who took them from Eleaner Johnson, who stole them; Ritta is in Kentucky & doesn't know where negroes are.

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