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Lot 185
Sale 2070 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography, including African Americana
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Feb 14, 2025
Lots Close
Feb 27, 2025
Timed Online / Cincinnati
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$360
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[ENSLAVEMENT]. Manuscript "Deed of Gift" transferring ownership of 3 enslaved males. [VA], 1814.
6 3/8 x 7 7/8 in. manuscript deed of gift. [VA], April 1814. Docketed and certified on verso.
In part: "Know all men by these present that I Mildred Dixon in consideration of the sum of one dollar to me hand paid by my son John Dixon do [indecipherable] make over to him all my right and title to three negroe Boys viz. Lewis, James, and William..."
Court order to certify on verso names this document a "deed of gift."
Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Ephemeral Americana and Historical Documents