?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Manuscript slave deed. Cornelius Dissosway a farmer from Richmond County, New York, sells a Negro man named Robert, "aged about twenty" to John Arden and Frederick Babcock of the City and State of New York for the sum of one hundred and twenty pounds "lawful money." Large folio sheet, folded to form four pages, written on three and docketed on the fourth. Original wax seal, signed by Dissosway and witnesses. New York, 1796
uncommon slave sale from new york. It is not generally known that New York was a large slave-holding state and that in the early part of the nineteenth century there were almost as many slaves in New York as North Carolina.
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