Samuel Ringgold will
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CH_CA_2022_IC_005_139
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Samuel Ringgold's will with bequests of enslaved peoples including three children Charles Henry, Caroline, and Eli, a woman Mary Jacob and boy Bill, girl Hester, boy John, men Lou and Layfaett, a boy Fred, and a women Dinah, a girl Kitty, Ann and her two children. All of which are to be free at certain dates stated in the will, Fred Layfaett, and Dinah are not to be sold out of state of off the island. Ann and her children are freed upon Samuel's death.
MS0066-09-76-009 January 4 1854
wills
Slave labor, Slavery--Economic aspects--United States, Slaves--Emancipation
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