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

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Record #100 from Manumissions in Sussex County Land Records, 1639-1843

Name of Enslaved Person(s) Dinah
Name of Slaveholder Phillip Dill
Previous Owner(s) Mentioned
Volume AD27
Page 20
Date 9 Jan 1808
Conditions To Be Free to be free from this date
Description, Age, and Other Information about Enslaved Person 24 yo woman. "...great impropriety of holding fellow creatures in slavery..."

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