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Lot 44
Sale 1118 - African Americana
Feb 28, 2023
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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$500 -
700
Price Realized
$473
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Lot Description
[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. Manuscript bill of sale for two enslaved individuals, Charles and Suck. Colchester, [VA], 1771.
1 page, 9 x 8 1/2 in., separations along old folds, two small losses possibly from wax seal. Undersigned. Docketed to verso.
An early Virginia manuscript bill of sale for "two Negro Slaves, to wit, Charles & Suck". The two enslaved individuals were sold by Elizabeth Atcheson, executrix of the estate of John McIntosh of Fairfax County, to John Simpson of Fairfax County for forty-three [Virginia] pounds. Suck is a nickname of Sukey, a common name among the Wolof people of West Africa.
Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Broadsides, Ephemeral Americana, and Historical Documents
This lot is located in Cincinnati.