Feb 28, 2005 - Sale 2034

Sale 2034 - Lot 2

Price Realized: $ 345
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(SLAVE DOCUMENT.) Letter of Agreement, between Lettes Bland and her servant Black Jesse. 2 pages, on single oblong 8vo leaf; Signed by both with an "X"; attested to by Joham Dicken. Monroe County, KY, 4 March 1828

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"The said Lettes Bland doth give her servant Black Jesse his liberty for the space of twelve months to work for himself by his paying her the just sum of forty dollars in specie at the expiration of the said twelve months." A note on the verso states that the sum was paid in full.