Receipts of James and Abraham Woodland
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Documents recording transactions of John and Abraham Woodland involving bushels of wheat and two enslaved persons named Sam and George.
Transcription:
[1]
Recd. Feby. 13th 1796 of Mr. James Woodland fifteen pounds on act. Of the Hire of negro Sam for the year 1795 by James Eccleston
£15,,0,,0
[2]
James Eccleston
Recd. 1796
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Receivd August 10th 1784 of Abraham Woodland Twenty Bushells of Wheat in full for Hire of Negro Sam & George in [illegible] & in full of all act.
B Wht.
Christopher Bussee
Sumner Hall
Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College
Clifton M. Miller Library
Washington College
1784 – 1796Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College
Clifton M. Miller Library
Washington College
English
manuscripts (documents)
The Commodore Collection
Slavery, Wheat, Agriculture, Receipts (Acknowledgments) Church Hill
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