Apr 17, 2012 - Sale 2276

Sale 2276 - Lot 9

Price Realized: $ 1,920
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
SIGNER FROM PENNSYLVANIA CLYMER, GEORGE. Autograph Letter Signed, "GClymer," to Colonel George Morgan of Princeton, NJ, discussing the possible exchange of a house slave. 2 pages, 8vo, with integral address leaf; closed separation, wear and tissue repairs at folds, silked on pages 1 and 4, postal markings on address panel, docketed "Nov'r 12th 1786" (a Sunday). Roxborough [Philadelphia, PA], "Friday morning" [10 November 1786]
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a signer wishes to "exchange his black girl." Clymer discusses a possible exchange of slaves. Pennsylvania had passed a gradual emancipation law six years before; all slaves were required to be registered with the state at that time, and no new slaves could be imported.
"Captain Litle proposed to me, provided his wife agreed, to exchange his black girl registered in Penn'a for Judy. Mrs. C. wishes to know something about her before I talk further to him on the subject. Mrs. M or Mrs. Livingston may know what she is good for. Litle says she is a good girl, for which reason he should not know of the inquiry, as he may think his word alone might have been taken. Mrs. C would wish to know immediately, as otherwise she must if she can get a Dutch woman." Provenance: Parke-Bernet's Gustav Oberlaender sale, 24 May 1939, lot 107.