Bill of sale for Genny, sold by Richard Scudder to Jonathan Dickinson
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- Identifier
- NJS-SRC-01120
- Source Type
- Bill of Sale, Invoice, or Receipt
- Author
- Richard Scudder (1703-1785)
- Location Created
- Elizabeth (formerly Elizabethtown)
- Date
- June 9, 1733
- Description
- A transcript of the bill of sale for Genny is published in the 1914 book Memorials of Eminent Yale Men by Anson Phelps Stokes. Stokes does not explain where the original document was found. This note appears below the transcript: "This is a bill of sale to Dickinson of a negro girl. It is entirely in his handwriting, and being dated 1733, is an early document of American slavery."
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Know all Men by these Psents that I, Richard Scudder of Elizabeth Town in the County of Essex and Provine of New Jersey Yeoman Have bargained sold and delivered unto Jonathan Dickinson of Elizabeth-Town aforsd a certain Negro Girl named Genny To Have and To Hold the sd Negro Girl unto him the sd Jonathan Dickinson and to his Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns during her natural Life And I do hereby for my self my Heirs Executors and Administrators bargain Covenant and agree with him the sd Jonathan Dickinson and with His Heirs Executors and Administrators that I the sd Richard Scudder had at the Time of the sale of that Negro Girl a just Propriety in her & full Power to dispose of her And also that I and my Heirs will warrant and defend him the sd Jonathan Dickinson and his Heirs and Assignes in the peaceable Possession and Property of the sd Negro Girl against all manner of Persons whatsoever legally claiming a Propriety in Her as Witness my Hand and Seal this ninth Day of June one thousand seven hundred and thirty three and in the Sixth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the second of Great Brittain & King & —
Richard Scudder
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David Thomas
Samuel ____ton - Language
- English
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Stokes, Anson Phelps. Memorials of Eminent Yale Men: A Biographical Study of Student Life and University Influences during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Vol. 1. 2 vols. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1914. Page 196. http://archive.org/details/memorialseminen00stokgoog
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- Jesse Bayker
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