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Document. Martin Gentry, will codicil, 1864 April 28

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 19
Identifier: MSN/EA 0200-19
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Included in this second codicil to the will of Martin Gentry of Madison County, Kentucky is the statement: "At the age of Twenty one years I emancipate and set free a negro boy named Lewis about six or seven years old copper colour his mother's name was Samina she is dead. It is my will that the boy Lewis be put to live with Mrs. Elizabeth Dean . . . until he arrives at twenty one years of age."

Dates: 1864 April 28