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1717, Phebe, Sale
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Title
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1717, Phebe, Sale
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Identifier
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NJS-EVE-00284
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Event Description
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On June 3, 1717, Shoball Smith sold an enslaved Black woman named Phebe to Samuel Smith for the sum of 50 pounds.
A partial transcript of the sale record appears in the 1873 book Woodbridge and Vicinity by Joseph W. Dally on page 185:
"Records of the sale of Africans are frequently found in MSS. relating to the town. The following, bearing date June 3d, 1717, is written in Liber B, folio 100:
'Know all men by these presents yt I, Shoball Smith, of Woodbridge, In ye County of Midd[lese]x In ye provence New East Jersey, for and In Consideration of ye sum of fifty pound Currant Silver money, of ye sd provence, to me In hand paid by Samuel Smith of ye Same place, yeoman of ye town and provence aforesd—do bargain, sell, allineat and Deliver one Negro woman Named Phebe to sd Samll Smith, for him, his heirs and assigns,' etc."
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Date
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3 June 1717
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Primary Participant
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Phebe
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Sex
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Female
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Age
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Adult
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Currency
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pound
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Price
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50
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Source
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Bill of sale for Phebe, sold by Shoball Smith to Samuel Smith
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Bill of sale for Phebe, sold by Shoball Smith to Samuel Smith, June 3, 1717. In Dally, Joseph W. Woodbridge and Vicinity. New Brunswick, NJ: A. E. Gordon, 1873. Page 185. Citing "MSS. relating to the town," document "bearing date June 3d, 1717, is written in Liber B, folio 100."
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Record Contributor
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Jesse Bayker