Selling A Negro Boy Arter About Ten Years Old In A Manuscript Document Signed By Cress And

by Slavery Aron Cress Solomon Misenehimer North Carolina Manuscript Sale

$300 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

Half-sheet 4to. One-page, approximately 125 words, in part: As executors of the will of Peter Lippard , “we have sold at publick sale … a Negro boy Arter … for the sum of Four hundred dollars … to the highest bider sic … and warrant said Negro to be sound as far as our Executorship will extend.” Old fold lines, some storage wear, but very good. Item #70948

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