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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION—COLONIAL DELAWARE.)
Manuscript Slave
Sale document, wherein “Mary Sulavan, widow and William Pettijohn,
Yeoman” sell a “Certain Neagro [sic] boy named Prince” to John Spencer Esq.
for the sum of seventy pounds.
Single 4to leaf, written on one side; seals and signatures
at the bottom of the page. Mary signs with a double “X” and John Pettijohn signs with a
curious inverted “V”, while Gabriel Powell, apparently the agent for Spencer signs with a
“P”. The only literate party seems to be the clerk, John Clowes. Some repair. Matted and
framed.
Sussex, Delaware, 8 June, 1763
[800/1,200]
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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION—COLONIAL MARYLAND.) HICKMAN,
ARTHUR.
July 4th 1767. Manuscript deposition of Arthur Hickman concerning
the gift of a slave girl named Peggy.
Single sheet of paper, written on one side and
docketed on the reverse; paper toned, short, closed tear at fold; edges slightly uneven.
Frederick County, Maryland, 1767
[800/1,200]
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The Deposition of Athur Hickman aged about Fifty five years deposeth and says that in the
year Seventeen hundred and fifty nine he was on the Eastern Shore at the house of the depo-
nent’s father William Hickman and heard his Father William Hickman give a Negro girl
called Pegg to Daughter of Henry Hickman, his son named Comfort Hickman and delivered
her to his son Henry Hickman to bring over the bay to his daughter Comfort Hickman and
Further sayth not. Sworn before Wm. [? Undecipherable].” The docket on the reverse states
“Received the 19th day of August, 1767, recorded the same day. . .John Darnell.”
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