Documentation for sale of enslaved woman, Hannah, and her son, Joshua
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CH_CA_2021_SC_023_010
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A document detailing the purchase of two enslaved people from W. William Milican Skinner to John Duhamel for the price of one hundred and fifty dollars.
Transcription:
Received January the 24th 1815 of W. Millican Skinner one hundred and fifty dollars in full for a negro woman called Hannah and boy child called Joshua sold him by me
John Duhamel
Sumner Hall
Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College
Clifton M. Miller Library
Washington College
January 24 1815Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College
Clifton M. Miller Library
Washington College
English
notes (documents)
The Commodore Collection
Slavery, Slavery--United States, Receipts (Acknowledgments), Slaveholders, Slaves Church Hill
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