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

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Record #358 from Abstracts of Somerset County Orphans Court Proceedings (Volumes 1-3), 1772-1792, 1811-1852

County Somerset
Orphan's Court Proceedings Book 2/163
Page in Original Liber 4:243
Date 2/17/1835
Status Slave
Abstract William S. Disharoon, by Edward Long, his attorney, files petition; John Jones (of Benj.), in his will left negro, Littleton, to my wife. He also left negro lad, Sam Chase, to his granddaughter, Betsy Eleanor Jones Disharoon, to whom I am father & guardian. Asks that Benjamin I. Jones, exe. of John Jones, deliver these legacies. Court so orders.

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