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

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Record #110 from Instruments of Freedom, Deeds and Wills of Emancipation Northampton County, Virginia 1782 to 1864

Page 107
Name of Enslaver Betsey Gleeson
Document type Will
Abstract Information about the Enslaved Person/People I give unto my two negroes Sarah & Peter their full freedom & Liberty and this my will to be their emancipation and further leave my boy Peter unto his Mother Sarah until he shall arrive to age of 21 yrs. Signed Betsey Gleeson with her mark on 2 Dec 1805. Northampton Co. Book of Wills & Inventories No. 32 page 492.
Date 13 Jan 1806

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