Delaware Day 2020 - Expanding the Delaware Story:  Dinah
Channel: DelawareHistory
Date: 2020-12-02

Dinah was a skilled spinner who was enslaved for over 26 years. She was held in bondage primarily by different men of the Dickinson family. Freed alongside her children in John Dickinson’s 1786 manumission document, Dinah eventually married Peter Patten, a free Black tenant of John Dickinson. The latest record of Dinah dates to 1810.

Additional information: 
• https://bit.ly/KentCountyBookofDeeds - Dickinson, John. Manumission document of 1787 - 3555 Kent County Book of Deeds Book Y-1 pg 217-218 1782 Source: Delaware Public Archives
• No online information is available at this time. Research continues by division staff. 

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