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

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Record #390 from Manumissions in Sussex County Land Records, 1639-1843

Name of Enslaved Person(s) Sophia Bacon
Name of Slaveholder Isaac Bacon, free Negro mulatto
Previous Owner(s) Mentioned Levin Hitch
Volume AM35
Page 551
Date 18 April 1823
Conditions To Be Free to be free today
Description, Age, and Other Information about Enslaved Person "bonds of affection for my wife Sophia". purchased from Levin Hitch, cordwainer

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