Documentation of the hiring of Emory
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CH_CA_2021_SC_023_051
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A document recording William Skinner's hiring of a young black man named Emory.
Transcription:
January the 1 1816 then received the sume of fifty dollars from the hands of William Skinner for the hier of negro boy Emory that the said Willi Skinner hiered from Mr Thomas B Cook for the year of eighteen hundred and fifteen
$50 Per me Basil Price
Sumner Hall
Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College
Clifton M. Miller Library
Washington College
1815 – 1816Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College
Clifton M. Miller Library
Washington College
English
business letters
The Commodore Collection
Hire, Youth, Black, Commercial correspondence Church Hill
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