Category: Estate Inventory
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Kent Co DE Probate Estate Files – Robert O Pennewill 1850-1854
Robert O. Pennewills Estate Inventory and Appraisement October 17, 1850 [partial] Negro Boy Daniel Crapper – Indentured servant to serve 3 yrs: from 18th October 1850… $100.00 Negro Boy Theodore Polk age about 17 years on the 27 March 1851 (so says his mother) slave until he is 25 years old $225.00 Negro Girl Hetty…
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Kent County Delaware Probate Estate Files John Vining 1770 – 1783
[Will] I John Vining of the County of Kent upon Delaware Esqr. being of sound disposing Mind Memory and Understanding Do make this my Last Will and Testament in Manner and Form Following that is to say Imprimis I order and direct that all my just Debts shall be paid Item It is my Will…
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Kent County DE Probate Estate Files – John Baynard 1809-1818 (w/Slave Inventory)
Adm.n Bond John Baynard Sept 18th 1809 Caleb Lockwood Jas. Metcalf } app KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTSThat we Margarett Baynard Thomas B Turpins Doctr. William Whitely & Samuel Neal of the county of Kent, are held and firmly bound unto the State of Delaware, in the sum of ten Thousand dollars current money…
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Sussex Co DE Probate Estate Files – Dr. Lemuel A Hall 1851-1860
Will Lemuel A Hall Sr 1851 I Lemuel A Hall Senr of Baltimore Hundred, Sussex County, State of Delaware Being now Sound in mind but of feble helth and calling to mind the Uncertainty of this human life do make & Establish this my Last Will & Testament this Ninth day of July in the…
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Estate Inventory of Slaves of Samuel Warren Sr 1848
1 black woman Betty aged 30 valued at $200 1 black man William aged 28 valued at $275 1 black woman Emily aged 26 valued at $250 1 black man Elijah aged 24 valued at $300 1 black man Andrew aged 19 valued at $300 1 black man Caleb aged 16 valued at $300 1…
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