Mar 21, 2013 - Sale 2308

Sale 2308 - Lot 5

Price Realized: $ 960
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
A "COUNTRY BORN" NEGRO (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) BOONE, SQUIRE. Autograph Document Signed, "Squire Boone," selling a male slave to Marsham Brashear for £200. 1 page, 4to. Toned at folds with some marginal wear, reinforced with paper on portions of verso. Lincoln County, 27 January 1783

Additional Details

"...I Squire Boone of Lincoln County do promise & oblige my self my heirs or assigns to Deliver ... to Maroham Brashear ... One Likely young Country Born negro man about the Age of Twenty Years ..."