William Skinner's hire of an enslaved man
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CH_CA_2021_SC_023_006
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A document recording the hire of an enslaved man by William Skinner and the subsequent payment due to Charles Copper from the late Skinner's estate.
Transcription:
William Skinner dee. (deceased) to Charles Copper
March 21st
To 3 month hyre of negro man at $50 per year $12.50
Queen Annes County to [illegible] March 28th [illegible] then come Charles Copper before me a justice of the peace of the state and for the county [illegible] and made oath on the holy evangels of Almighty God that the above account is just there as stated and that he has not [illegible] indirectly secured any thing in pay [illegible] or satisfy action for the same.
March 28th 1814 the above act ree [received] in full by Charles Copper
Sumner Hall
Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College
Clifton M. Miller Library
Washington College
March 1814Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College
Clifton M. Miller Library
Washington College
English
business letters
The Commodore Collection
Slaves, Commercial correspondence, Slavery, Payment, Claims against decedents' estates, Labor Church Hill
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