Payment received for hire of an enslaved man
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A document recording the receipt of payment from Abraham Woodland for the hire of an enslaved man.
Transcription:
[1]
Received July 15th 1776 of Abraham Woodland by the hand of John Woodland the sum of seven pounds fourteen shillings being the balance of last years hire of my negro man and in full of all accompts I say recd. [received]
Me Andrew Hichmann
[2]
Rect. from A
Heckman
July 15 1776
Rec. from all
The Commodore collection, MS 0102-01-14-003
Sumner Hall
Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College
Clifton M. Miller Library
Washington College
July 15 1776Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College
Clifton M. Miller Library
Washington College
English
business letters
The Commodore Collection
Slave labor, Commercial correspondence, Slavery, Slaves, Payment Church Hill
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