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

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Record #36 from Abstracts of the Wills and Administrations of Accomack County, Virginia 1800-1860

County Accomack
Name Bagwell, Thomas
Date (written/proved/probated or recorded) 5 Nov 1810/27 May 1816
Abstract To wife the term of service to be completed by Moses London agreeable to the deed of manumission on record & he is to go free if my wife dies before such term & also to my wife my black girl Leah & at wife's death Leah to be free. To Esther, Daniel and Jacob Sampson, black people who I manumitted, each 3 £ to be paid out of store.
Main Source Reference Wills 1814-16 w&c, p. 524.

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