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

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Record #3715 from Wills from Caroline, Kent, and Talbot Counties of Maryland, 1688-1886

County Kent
Liber:Folio 13:83
Date of Will (Written) 2/9/1853
Probate Date 7/3/1857
Name of Deceased/Testator Pere Smith (colored) living near Washington college
Heirs/Legatee Elizabeth Smith - wife
Abstract to my wife during her life after her natural death to my son Josiah Smith the house and lots of ground adjoining in which I now live. To my daughter Kitty Reed now living in Baltimore, one bed and 13 1/2 acres of land on "Hopewell" which adjoining the lands of Stephen Biddle and Mr. Goff and which I purchased of Judge Ecclison to her.

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