Claim: During 1805, Seymour Burr, an African-American slave married Mary Wilbore in which he inherited six acres of land owned by her previous husband.
Evidence: Seymour Burr (1754/1762–1837) was an African-American slave in the Connecticut Colony in the North American British Colonies and United States. Then in 1805 he married a widow, Mary (Will) Wilbore, daughter of Nuff Will and Sarah Moho (Mohho), a Native American woman of the Ponkapoag tribe, and settled in what is now Canton, Massachusetts. In marrying her, he inherited the 6 acres (24,000 m) of land owned by her previous husband, Jacob Wilbor.