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

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Record #3267 from Wills from Dorchester, Somerset, Worcester & Wicomico Counties of Maryland, 1783-1919

County Somerset
Folio Number JP5: 237
Probate Date 5/4/1854
Name of Deceased Ephraim Nutter (likely Negro - see heir info)
Heirs Gutsy Farrow - daughter (wife of Levin Farrow), Esther Leatherbury - daughter, wife of John Leatherbury. Amy Covington (daughter (slave of Isaac Covington). Ephraim - son, slave of Col. William T. G. Polk. Esther Leatherbury - daughter (wife of John Leatherbury "my black man". Gutsy Farrow - daughter (wife of Levin Farrow), Esther Leatherbury - daughter, wife of John Leatherbury
Black Individuals Mentioned in Will to have 10 acres of land left to widow (Esther Nutter) after her decease and to be divided equally among them

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