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MS Document Dealing with Slave Auction

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Two MS 1843 Documents Dealing with Slaves: Both single page unlined letter sheets with inked manuscript. Deposition of Thomas Bailes taken in Madison County , Ohio. Describes promissory note of black man for hire and land sales of Joseph Grave

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MS 1828 Winchester Virginia Chancery Court Doc Dealing with Estate with Slaves: Forty-eight page inked manuscript legal document dealing with the will of Charles Graves of Frederick Virginia, who died in 1823 signed by Daniel Lee, Clerk of Courts and Judge Henry L. George Becker,

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1828 Mason Co. Ky. MS Slave Document: Single page unlined partial letter sheet (8 x 5”) with inked manuscript reading: Miss Elizabeth Graves and John Graves & Charles Graves Sir you are to pay forty Dollars of my part to Cathirine (

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Mason Co. Ky 1839 Court Doc with 2 Named Slaves: Mason Co. court document dealing with the ownership of two named slaves Dilly & Milly, by Joseph Graves with inked manuscript on folded unlined legal letter sheet, 7 ¼ x 12 ¼”. Doc

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MS Witness Statement Concerning Ownership of Slaves: Two page inked manuscript on single folded letter sheet 7 ½ x 12 ½” dealing with the case of Joseph Graves of Mason Co. Kentucky vs his brother in law and sister dispute over the p

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Mason Co. Ky 1843 Court Doc with 12 Named Slaves: Mason Co. court document detailing the 1835 will of James Cooper of Mason Co. on unlined folded legal letter sheet with 2 ¼” pages of inked manuscript text, docketed on back dealing with

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MS 1832 Legal Complaint Against J. Graves by Relatives over Slaves: Three page folded letter sheet with inked manuscript detailing the actions of Joseph Graves while in Frederick, Virginia in the year 1823 dealing with the estate of his father and the ownership of his

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1853 Certain negro woman, Slave Bill of Sale, AR.: Black History 1853 "Certain negro woman" Slave Bill of Sale for $1,200 December 2, 1853-Dated, Manuscript Document, Slave Bill of Sale, being "Certain negro woman" Slave Bill of Sale for $1,200, (Brad

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Lot of Mason County Ky. MS Documents: Circa 120+ documents dating from the 1820s to the 1890s, with most being pre-civil war. Most are legal documents including circa 21 partially printed Commonwealth of Kentucky Sheriffs orders for Mason

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Virginia/Kentucky 1830 Slave Document: Single page unlined partial letter sheet (8 ½ x 6 ½”) with inked manuscript reading in part: Know all men by these presents that I Thomas Bales of feduruk (sic) County and state of

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Documents Discussing Slave J Graves Ownership: Seven pages inked manuscript documenting last will of Charles Graves, monies due from past complaints against Graves family members. Notes Elizabeth Graves left three slaves Richard, Millie, Dilly, be

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1746 Receipt for Sale of a Slave Boy Named Prince: Black History 1746 Boston Slave a Boy Named "Prince" Sale Receipt March 7, 1746-Dated Early Colonial Massachusetts, Manuscript Slave Sale Document for a boy named "Prince," Suffolk County (Boston Area

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1854 Slave Hire Contract Cherokee County, Texas: Black History Slave for Hire Document in Cherokee County, Texas 1854 January 13, 1854-Dated, Slave for Hire Manuscript Document, Cherokee County, Texas, Choice Very Fine. Original Manuscript Document

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MS Mason Co. Ky. Will Leaving Slaves & Real Estate: Inked manuscript on single folded letter sheet stating that the court recognizes the right of Ann P. Smith to one third of the real estate and slaves of James Copper deceased being his legal wife, sig

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Manuscript Document. Arsenic as a Poison. 1850s: [Manuscript] Dr. Laurence Turnbull of Philadelphia. Original ms. essay on the symptoms, treatment and analyses of arsenic as a poison, written in the 1850s. Ms., n.d. (late 1850s), 2pp. ink text, fold

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1826 Slave Auctioneer CRYING (Auctioneering) Fee: Black History 1826 (Auctioneering) Payment Kentucky Slave Auctioneer's "Crying" Fee on a Negro Slave Very Rare Original Receipt February 17th 1826-Dated, Manuscript Document Signed, "Wm. Hughs," Invoi

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Single folded letter sheet, 7 ½ x 12 ½” with inked manuscript being a legal document ordering that two named slaves be sold at public auction to settle disputed will, Mason County, Ky., docketed on reverse 20 August 1838. Condition normal folds and even toning, VG.

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MS Document Dealing with Slave Auction

Name: MS Document Dealing with Slave Auction
SKU: 152965699
Price: 350 USD
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