Mar 21, 2013 - Sale 2308

Sale 2308 - Lot 6

Price Realized: $ 960
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION--NEW YORK.) Early New York Manuscript Slave Sale Document, wherein James Mathews of New Cornwall, New York sells Hannah Townsend "a Certain negro wench named Rachel about twenty six years with her wearing apparel." Single folio leaf, written on one side and docketed on the reverse. Signed by Mathews and witnesses, with original wax seal. New Cornwall, 1788