Letter: Congo Mango to James Woodland, July 31, 1800
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A letter from Congo Mango to James Woodland concerning the purchase of an enslaved person.
Transcription:
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I Congo Mango have this thirty first day of July in the year eighteen hundred. Purchased of James Woodland a Negro man named Cato Davis and I the said Congo Mango for myself, my heirs, executors, and administrators do bind myself and every of them in the Pinal sum of one hundreds pounds money currency to keep and save [illegible] the said James Woodland and his Heirs from any trouble cost on expense for on an account to the said Cato Davis forever hereafter. Witness my hand and seal the day and year aforementioned.
Signed by Congo Mango
[2]
Congo Mango
Bond of Indemnity
To James Woodland
1800
Sumner Hall
Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College
Clifton M. Miller Library
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July 31 1800Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College
Clifton M. Miller Library
Washington College
English
business letters
The Commodore Collection
Slave bills of sale, Heirs, Letters, Slavery, Slaves Church Hill
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