NUTTER-MD-Will-1773

Will of Christopher NUTTER
Dorchester County, Maryland,
Probated 16 December 1773 (L.p.p. 37)

I give... to my son Robert Nutter...one negro woman called Daish...

I give... to my son Zadock Nutter, one negro man called Boxas and one negro girl called Hanner...

I give..to my son Caleb Nutter, my dwelling plantation which I now live on containing one hundred and fifty acres of land called Drill Peepe and one negro man called Jacob and one negro woman called Hanner....

I give...to my daughter Esther Nutter, one negro boy called Delany and one negro girl called Bethany...

I give...to my daughter Leah Nutter, one negro woman called Reck and her two children, one named Levin and the other named Abraham.

[to his wife, Eleanor] I leave a negro woman called Grace and three of the smallest of her children, it is my desire that Emanuel Manlove should have the selling of them to buy land for my said son Zadock Nutter with the money.

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