Documentation of the hiring of Emory

Documentation of the hiring of Emory

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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

1815 – 1816

English
business letters
The Commodore Collection
Hire, Youth, Black, Commercial correspondence Church Hill


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