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

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Record #531 from Manumissions in Sussex County Land Records, 1639-1843

Name of Enslaved Person(s) Peter, Jacob, and Lucy
Name of Slaveholder Richard Little, William Thompson & Elizabeth Lounders?, executors of James Thompson of Lewes
Previous Owner(s) Mentioned James Thompson
Volume AW45
Page 313
Date 19 June 1792
Conditions To Be Free 17 pounds 10 shillings paid for them to be free now
Description, Age, and Other Information about Enslaved Person late slave of dec'd James Thompson. To be known as Peter Lewis, Jacob Lewis & Lucy Lewis. Able to make a living.

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