Harriet Skinner's inheriting of an enslaved woman, Nan
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CH_CA_2021_SC_023_013
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A document recording the late William Skinner bequeathing an enslaved woman, Nan, to his daughter, Harriet Skinner.
Transcription:
Received May 30th 1814 of M. William Skinner executor of William Skinner late of Queen Anne's County dee [deceased] one negro woman by the name of Nan at one hundred and twenty dollars as a [illegible] [illegible] by the said William Skinner dee [deceased] to his daughter Harriet Skinner now my wife.
Signed by John Duhamel and Andrew Joleson
Sumner Hall
Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College
Clifton M. Miller Library
Washington College
May 30 1814Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College
Clifton M. Miller Library
Washington College
English
business letters
The Commodore Collection
Women slaves, Inheritance and succession--United States, Slaves, Slaveholders, Slavery Church Hill
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