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

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Record #682 from Wills from Sussex County, Delaware, 1751-1883

State Delaware
County Sussex
Liber: Folio E5:61
Date (Signed) 9/24/1795
Date (Probate) 12/29/1795
Deceased George Bacon
Heirs Negro woman Easter
Abstract should be free at my death if she should fall to me by a "law suit depending that a certain Sarah Collins commenced against me." That if Negro Easter "should live to be old so that she may not be abe to get her living, that the afs. Levin Bacon (son of William Davis Bacon)shall give her a reasonable maintenance during her natural lkife."

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