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

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Record #444 from Manumissions in Sussex County Land Records, 1639-1843

Name of Enslaved Person(s) Rachell, Hezekiah Piney, Edna, Nathan Vickars?, Sally, Edna & Barkley
Name of Slaveholder Mary Townsend & Barkley Townsend, adm.
Previous Owner(s) Mentioned Thomas Townsend, dec'd
Volume AP38
Page 470
Date 36 April 1828
Conditions To Be Free Rachel & her children to be free
Description, Age, and Other Information about Enslaved Person Thomas Townsend is on death bed & verbally told his family & Leticia Copes & Eleanor Skinner to set Rachel free along with all her children which he listed

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