Free Blacks Of Anne Arundel County Maryland 1850

Author : James Martin Wright
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230425672
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book The Free Negro in Maryland written by James Martin Wright and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ... Talbot Washington Worcester Totals 2210 14 9 137 11 214 S2000 $5000 10 1 ments would lead to forfeiture.1 A will in Harford County exacted an annual rental of twenty dollars for a house, one in Talbot reserved the right to the fruit from certain trees, and one in Frederick forbade the clearing of the timber and the obstruction of the springs on a tract of land conveyed.2 Some provisions again were designed to continue the exercise of supervision over the conduct of negro estate holders by executors or major heirs. For instance, in Washington County the returns from the labor of two slaves were bequeathed to two other negroes, one of whom was the mother of two children. This mother was not to marry or to harbor as consort any negro until the youngest of her children had reached the age of thirty years.1 Lastly there were the restrictions inherent in the administration of legacies by trustees. A few of these applied to realty' and money and to securities. An early instance was that of a trusteeship of a hundred pounds Maryland currency willed for the benefit of a " free negro woman" at Frederick in 1788.3 It was followed by others all of which were in effect almost the same as annuities. Limited term estates differed from those for life chiefly in that their duration was fixed at the outset. In Cecil County in 1784 the usufruct of a house and lot was given to a negro for a period of three years, and in the next quarter of a century a few other cases of the same kind occurred in Baltimore and Talbot Counties.5 Gifts of slaves-for-terms-of-years were made to yield incomes which, although of uncertain duration, were in effect much like those of incomes from 1 Wills: Anne Arundel, Lib. BEG no. 1, p. m; Harford, Lib. AJ no. C, p. 183;...