“ONE LIKELY YOUNG COUNTRY BORN NEGRO . . .”
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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) BOONE, SQUIRE.
Autograph Document
Signed, “Squire Boone,” selling a male slave to Marsham Brashear for £200.
1
page, 4to. Toned at folds with some marginal wear, reinforced with paper on portions of
verso.
Lincoln County, 27 January 1783
[1,000/1,500]
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...I Squire Boone of Lincoln County do promise & oblige my self my heirs or assigns to
Deliver ... to Maroham Brashear ... One Likely young Country Born negro man about the
Age of Twenty Years ...”
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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION—NEW YORK.)
Early New York Manuscript
Slave Sale Document, wherein James Mathews of New Cornwall, New York sells
Hannah Townsend “a Certain negro wench named Rachel about twenty six
years with her wearing apparel.”
Single folio leaf, written on one side and docketed
on the reverse. Signed by Mathews and witnesses, with original wax seal.
New Cornwall, 1788
[800/1,200]
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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION—RHODE ISLAND ANTI-SLAVERY SOCI-
ETY.)
Constitution of a Society for Abolishing the Slave Trade with Several Acts
of the Legislatures of the States of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode
Island, for that Purpose.
19 pages. 8vo, lacking the original plain wrappers; damp-stain
running throughout; small, early ink “jotting” on title page and rear cover.
Providence: John Carter, 1789
[600/800]
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