Bill of sale for Bett, an enslaved girl, from Absalom Lancaster to Thomas Cook, 1761 May 15? :manuscript copy.

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Title:
Bill of sale for Bett, an enslaved girl, from Absalom Lancaster to Thomas Cook, 1761 May 15? :manuscript copy.
Date:
September 1, 1760
Creator:
Lancaster, Absalom, seller, enslaver
Contributor:
Description:

  • Copy of a bill of slave for Bett, an enslaved girl, "aged about 11 years" for 32 pounds, 10 shillings.

  • Originally created on 1760 September 1. At bottom of leaf: At a court held for Granville County 15th? May 1761. This Bill of Sale was proved by the oath of Gideon Macon ... ordered to be recorded, [Just.?] Saml. Weldon. Copy ... Danl. Weldon. On verso of leaf: Lancaster to Cook. Copy Bill of Sale.

  • Title devised by cataloger.

  • Witnesses: Gideon Macon; J. W. Lanston?

  • In English.

Subject:
Format:
bills of sale
Publisher:
Granville County, North Carolina, 1761 May 15?
Language:
English
Digital Collection:
American Slavery Documents
Catalog Record:
https://find.library.duke.edu/catalog/DUKE009657095
Source Collection:
American slavery documents collection, 1757-1878 and undated
Series:
Slavery Series
Rights:
Free Re-Use
Public Domain
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Identifier:
  • a7b7b9db8a184df76a3f5262d3656910
  • 009657095
  • americanslaverydocs
  • duke:324142
  • asdsi001004
  • ark:/87924/r4b27q68r
  • b97b5ba6-ed97-4c71-b27c-45c9cb6ea1cb
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