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

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Record #116 from Instruments of Freedom, Deeds and Wills of Emancipation Northampton County, Virginia 1782 to 1864

Page 114
Name of Enslaver Susanna Petit
Document type Will
Abstract Information about the Enslaved Person/People …. I give to my negro Solomon $10 7 to my negro Mary $10….. I direct thatmy negroes Solomon & Mary go free at age of 35 years. Executor my Son william Pettis. Signed Susanna Pettit 3 Oct 1822. Northampton Co. Book of Wills & Inventories No. 33A page 91.
Date 5 Nov 1822

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