(SLAVERY ABOLITION) Bill of sale for a boat and the Negro m

Sale 2631 - Lot 12

Price Realized: $ 594

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200

(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Bill of sale for a boat, and "the Negro man Curry who commands her." Manuscript Document Signed by grantor Thomas J. Pasteur and a witness. One page, 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches, with docketing on verso; folds, minor toning. [North Carolina?], 19 December 1850

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A bill of sale for "a schooner boat of the size of twenty tons or thereabout, also Negro man Curry who commands her" to James P. Thorp; "the name of the above described boat is the Dime."

Thomas Jefferson Pasteur (1801-1888) was a farmer in New Bern, Craven County, NC. The 1850 census shows him in the Outer Banks village of Portsmouth, NC, where he also served as customs collector. He soon relocated to Florida. The buyer may have been the James Thorp aged 20 who appears in the 1850 census for Craven County.