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

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Record #272 from Manumissions in Sussex County Land Records, 1639-1843

Name of Enslaved Person(s) Adney Dutton, John Dutton, Richard Dutton & Mary Dutton
Name of Slaveholder Handable Dutton, free black man
Previous Owner(s) Mentioned George Hobbs
Volume AI32
Page 249
Date March 1816
Conditions To Be Free All to be free
Description, Age, and Other Information about Enslaved Person Adney, wife of Handable. Their children: John Dutton & Richard Dutton, Mary Dutton (bought of George Hobbs).

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