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Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
"ALL GOD'S CHILDREN..." (MANUSCRIPT SLAVE DOCUMENT - NEW YORK.) Ledger sheet recording shoes made by David Groesbeck for Maerten Gerse Van Den Bergh's household and slaves. Single small folio leaf, written on one side, listing fourteen pairs of shoes for both men and women (neger and negerin) made or sold between October 1770 and March 1776. Creases where folded; outer fold evenly darkened; docketed on the rear "David Groesbeck's Accts. Paid-settled in 1782." [Albany], 1770-82
Both Gerse van den Bergh and David Groesbeck were members of Albany's Dutch Reform Church. It is evident that Van Den Bergh, like many upstate New York Dutch, held many slaves. In fact by the first decades of the 19th century, New York State had as many slaves as North Carolina. In 1752, Groesbeck was chosen constable for the second ward. He also belonged to an Albany militia company. At the outbreak of the war he threw his support to the Revolutionary cause. In 1778, he was named lieutenant of a company of older Patriots who would be called up only in an emergency. David Groesbeck, Jr. died in March 1795 at the age of sixty nine. His obituary characterized him as "a pious and exemplary man."
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