?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) MARYLAND. "We command you take John Weaver, John McManus, William Baer, Nicholas Starke, and Joseph Richardson of Baltimore County . . . to answer George Weems a plea." Partially printed document, accomplished by hand. Small 4to, printed on one side and docketed on the reverse; signed by the magistrate, with the deeply embossed seal of the state. Baltimore County, MD, 1818
An interesting case in which five men carried off Mr. Weems' slave George valued at $1000. In addition to the subpoena to seize and hold the thieves, there is an additional charge that they 'did take and carry away and [cause] other harms to the said George and 'against the peace, government and dignity of the State of Maryland,' filed the 6th July, 1818.' One thousand dollars was a great deal of money in 1818. Amazing? Yes, but imagine a free labor machine in peak condition, that would serve you for ten years or more to come.
