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

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Record #592 from Manumissions in Sussex County Land Records, 1639-1843

Name of Enslaved Person(s) Paris
Name of Slaveholder Hercules Kollock, Richard Prettyman & William Prettyman, all from Lewes, Rehoboth Hundred
Previous Owner(s) Mentioned Elizabeth Drain of Rehoboth
Volume P15
Page 71
Date 25 Jan 1793
Conditions To Be Free to be free now.
Description, Age, and Other Information about Enslaved Person group purchased Paris from Drain for 30 pounds. He to be known as Paris Prettyman.

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