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

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Record #216 from Somerset County Bonds, 1827-1850

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Date 21 Oct 1840
Record Name (Somerset County, MD) SO County Bonds (1834-1842)
Citation (Liber:Folio) JP13:216-217
Name Referenced Samuel & Lemuel R. Brattan
Record Type Division of Negroes
Abstract of Record Division of negroes of Samuel Brattan and Lemuel R. Brattan bequeathed to them by their father Joshua Brattan, deceased, in his last will & testament. Distribution, names and values follow. To Samuel Brattan: girl Leah $400, boy Joe $300, man Elijah $100, man Stephen Waller $100. To Lemuel Brattan: Jack $500, woman Easther $50, woman Sinday $350, John Venables, (a cripple of no value but an expense estimated at the same & equal value of Samuel paying annually to Lemuel R. Brattan as his guardian $15 so long as Stephen Venables shall be an invalid and a cripple to Lemuel R. Brattan.

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