Slave bills of sale
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: https://lccn.loc.gov/sh85123317
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Bills of Sale of Enslaved Persons
Series
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The contents of this collection consist of handwritten documents in English and Dutch belonging to Johannis Brando, William Brandow, Peter G. Brandow, and others in two document containers, primarily early indentures, leases, mortgages, wills, litigation records, and other documents pertaining to real and personal property in the Loonenburgh patent and town of Cattskill dating from about 1750. Notably, the collection includes 6 bills of sale and a bequest of enslaved adults and children dating...
Columbia County: Historical Documents, 1760 - 1853
File — Case MSS Vertical File Drawer Six
Identifier: Folder 88
Scope and Contents
File contains various business papers and legal agreements from Columbia County including a bill of sale for the purchase of a slave girl named Grace by Jonathan Biglow of Livingston Manor.
Coxsackie: Ezra Reed, 1798 - 1818
File — Case MSS Vertical File Drawer Nine
Identifier: Folder 12
Scope and Contents
File contains letters patent for property in Clinton County, the disposition of Ezra's property to his heirs, and a bill of sale of a negro slave girl, Fillis, age twenty, to Susannah Bronk. File also contains an archivist's description of where Ezra's property was located in Coxsackie.