Bill of Sale for Lydia
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- Identifier
- NJS-SRC-01143
- Source Type
- Bill of Sale, Invoice, or Receipt
- Location Created
- South Brunswick
- Date
- January 19, 1799
- Transcript
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Know all men by these presents that we Thomas McDowell John Perrine Stephen Johnes & James Schureman Executors of the last will & Testament of David Williamson Dec'd. Late of South Brunswick County of Middlesex and State of New Jersey for the sum of one hundred & fifty dollars to them in hand paid have and do bargain and sell to John McClane his Heirs Executors administrators or assigns a female slave named Lydia to have and to hold to him his Executors administrators heirs & assigns forever of which said slave Lydia we have put the said John McClane in full possession at the sealing of these presents in the name of the whole hereby sold - and we do warrant and defend the said John McClane in peaceable possession of said slave Lydia against us & all persons Lawfully claiming from or under us or from the said David Williamson Dec'd. as witness our hands and seals this 19th Day of January In the year of our Lord 1799.
Thos. McDowell
John Perrine
Stephen Johnes
Jas Schureman
Sealed & Delivered
In the presence of
Benjamin Griggs
John Van Pelt - Language
- English
- Format
- loose page of unlined paper with handwriting and four wax seals
- Reproduced In
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Princeton & Slavery Project. Cited as: Bill of Sale for Lydia, 1799. Letters 1752-1807. Office of the President Records: Jonathan Dickinson to Harold W. Dodds Subgroup, Box 7, Folder 6. Princeton University Archives, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library. https://slavery.princeton.edu/
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- Princeton & Slavery Project
- Larissa Jimenez Gratereaux
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