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

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Record #283 from Wills from Caroline, Kent, and Talbot Counties of Maryland, 1688-1886

County Talbot
Liber:Folio JB4:185
Date of Will (Written) 1/11/1791
Probate Date 5/31/1791
Name of Deceased/Testator Charles Pickarring, Sr.
Heirs/Legatee Asmay Pickering, Martha Pickering, Allas Pickering - daughters
Abstract Negroes that comes to the girls parts are not to be set free nor give them to anyone to set them free but to be left to the poor house to maintain the parish poor.

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