Will record for Toussaint Dubois, 1816

Description:	The following text is found on pages 75-79 in Will Book A, a record of wills filed in Knox County, Indiana from 1806-1852. The book is held at the Knox County Public Library’s McGrady-Brockman House.“As also I will and it is my desire that my said wife (Jane) do have the services of one Negroe Man named Gabriel and Anne his wife until the youngest child named Jesse Kilgore Dubois arrives to the age of twenty-one years. And then if in the opinion of my said wife (and the custom of the country permit) that (the?) said People of Colour is able to make a comfortable living they are to be free, if not they are to be (assisted?) out of my property during their life time.”(Further down in the will)“It is also my desire that none of the Negroes now in my family be sold so as to be obliged to serve out of the family unless for criminal conduct.”
Origin:	1816
Contributor(s):	Dubois, Toussaint; Dubois, Jane; Duboise, Jesse Kilgore; Gabriel; Anne
Source:	http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/kcpl/id/43360
Collection:	Knox County Public Library
Rights:	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Copyright:	No Copyright - United States
Geography:	Vincennes, Knox County, Indiana, United States
Subjects:	Black people -- America -- History African Americans -- History Black people -- History Slave records Slave labor Slavery Slaveholders Enslaved women Enslaved men Slavery -- Law and legislation Indentured servants Indiana -- Northwest Indiana -- History Vincennes (Ind.) Knox County (Ind.)

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