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

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Record #108 from Instruments of Freedom, Deeds and Wills of Emancipation Northampton County, Virginia 1782 to 1864

Page 106
Name of Enslaver Charles Roberts Simkins
Document type Will
Abstract Information about the Enslaved Person/People It is my desire that the whole of my property personal and my part of money arising from sale of my father's lands, together with my Negro girl Esther shall go to my brother Arthur Simkins and he be appointed Executor. Except my negro Esther who by provision of will of my father is to be free at a certain age. Signed Charles R. Simkins 7 Feb 1803. Northampton Co. Book of Wills & Inventories No. 32 page 536.
Date 11 Aug 1806

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