Order on the Application of Shadrack & others to be registered as free Negroes

Date: 30 Jan 1854 [unknown]
Location: Accomack, Virginia, United States
Surname/tag: Bayly

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”Order on the Application of Shadrack & others to be registered as free Negroes”

30 January 1854; at Accomack County Court

On the application of Shadrack aged about 68 years, Nancy aged about 75, Leah aged about 65, Rody aged about 45, Betty aged about 25, Emmy aged about 23, Daniel aged from 12 to 15, Ann, aged about 12 to 14, Leah aged about 8 to 10, and Jacob aged about 30 years, slaves emancipated by the last will and testament of Peggy Bayly deceased, to be registered as free negroes, the Court doth refuse to register as free negroes the said Shadrack, Nanny, and Leah, and it doth order that the said Rody, Betty, Emmy and Jacob be registered as free negroes emancipated by the said Peggy Bayly deceased. And it being made known to the Court that Charles B. Duffield and Miers W. Fisher and John W. Parker were the Counsel of the said Daniel, Ann, and Leah, in a contest made on the probate of the will of the said Peggy Bayly deceased, it is ordered that John J. Bayly, the administrator with the will annexed of said Peggy Bayly deceased, do pay to the said Charles B. Duffield and John W. H. Parker and Miers W. Fisher, counsel as aforesaid, the several legacies of forty dollars ($40.00), bequeathed by the said Peggy Bayly to the said Daniel, Ann and Leah, respectively as their fees against said Daniel, Ann and Leah in the said contest.”

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