Mar 21, 2024 - Sale 2663

Sale 2663 - Lot 399

Price Realized: $ 750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(SLAVERY.) A tenant farmer agrees to "treat the Negroes of the said Broadwater in a humane manner." Manuscript Document (contemporary copy), 12½ x 7¾ inches, with docketing on verso; full separations at folds. Fairfax County, VA, 15 December 1804
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An agreement between landowner Col. Charles Broadwater and a tenant farmer to farm "the red house lot" in Virginia for one season: "Broadwater obliges himself to furnish on the said piece of land in order to make a crop in the year 1805 & in the month of January three Negroes & two horses & . . . furnish for the said Negroes three barrels of corn each & for the horses six barrels of corn," with the partner Huguley to provide "two Negroes & two horses . . . & take the management of all the hands & . . . to treat the Negroes of the said Broadwater in a humane manner."

Charles Broadwater (1719-1806) had been an officer in the French and Indian War, and leading up to the Revolution was one of two Fairfax County delegates to the Virginia Convention. The other delegate was George Washington.