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Lot 183
Sale 2070 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography, including African Americana
Lots Open
Feb 14, 2025
Lots Close
Feb 27, 2025
Timed Online / Cincinnati
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$300 -
500
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$780
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[ENSLAVEMENT]. 2 turn-of-the-century manuscript bills of sale for enslaved persons in Virginia.
Manuscript bill of sale. Fairfax County, VA, 5 July 1798. One page, 5 3/8 x 6 1/2 in. Court certified on verso, 16 April 1799.
Baldwin Dade of Fairfax County, VA sells an enslaved woman named "Pegg & her three children now with her oldest [indecipherable] boy second girl Kate third a girl Betty" to John Wise of Alexandria, VA for the sum of 96 pounds.
Manuscript bill of sale. Fairfax County, VA, 21 December 1800. One page, 6 1/2 x 11 1/4 in. Docketed on verso.
John Dawwson of Fairfax County, VA sells two enslaved persons including an 18-year-old man named Ben and a 10-year-old girl named Suckey "with her future increase" to Robert Morris of Maryland for the sum of 400 dollars.
Together, 2 manuscript bills of sale.
Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Ephemeral Americana and Historical Documents