Payment for retrieval of runaway enslaved person, Jacob
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CH_CA_2021_SC_023_008
Institutional Collections
A document recording Charlton Barns's payment to James Woodland on behalf of Mary Woodland in exchange for returning Jacob, a fugitive enslaved man.
Transcription:
[1]
[Illegible] [illegible] 3th 1795 of James Woodland Alaveen pounds five shillings, in three ten dollar bank notes for tracing [illegible] and bringing home a negro man Jacob belonging to mas Mary Woodland a wife of John Woodland [illegible] living in Kent County and state of Maryland paid in full by me Charlton Barns.
[2]
[illegible] for
$30 paid for
Mary Woodland
1795
The Commodore collection, MS 0102-01-27-001
Sumner Hall
Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College
Clifton M. Miller Library
Washington College
1795Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College
Clifton M. Miller Library
Washington College
English
business letters
The Commodore Collection
Fugitive slaves, Bounties, Payment, Slavery, Slaves Church Hill
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