Feb 27, 2003 - Sale 1961

Sale 1961 - Lot 12

Unsold
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(SLAVERY and ABOLITION.) Manuscript Legal Document, being an indenture apprenticing a free mulatto boy. One page, folio: signed by the parties involved; docketed on verso. Charlotte county, VA, 1812

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Edmund Howell, a free mulatto boy, binds himself to John Robinson until the age of 21. In exchange, Mr. Robinson agrees to "Teach or cause to be taught to said Edmund Howell the art, trade and mistery [sic] of a Ditcher"[?].