Documents Relating to Miscellaneous Issues of Slaves and Freemen, Verification of Manumission, Medical Care, and More

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Nov 16, 2018

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• Lot Description
  Lot of 16 unusual slavery-related documents. Medical subject matter includes:
  
  Receipt, 2.75 x 7 in., from John Wooten, "...ten dollars for curing a cancer wort on negro girl Penny's hand in the year eighteen forty five." Signed Edmend Davis, December 16, 1847.
  
  Receipt, 4.75 x 5 in., February 17, 1865, "...paid Dr. L. Fletcher in Confederate money for his medical services to negro boy Prince - thirty dollars..."
  
  Receipt, 4.75 x 8 in., "To Ann, a Negro woman. 1841. March - To delivering Mary of a Child & attending her during confinement. $4." With Ann's "X" mark. Witnessed by Simon Towle.
  
  Requests for guardians/caretakers:
  
  ADS, State of Arkansas, County of Calhoun. Request filed by the estate administrator to the judge to extend the rent on the property of the deceased and hire the "Negro Man Ephraim" who apparently was hired as caretaker on the property. The concern seems to be that the rental/hire agreements will expire before the next court session at which the estate will be settled, and the administrator fears the man will be sold with other assets.
  
  ADS, 7.75 x 9.75 in., Montgomery County (no state, poss. MD), January 26, 1839. Request by Robert Thompson, a free man of colour, that James A. Barker be appointed his guardian to attend to his affairs since he has broken his leg. The court did so since Barker provided a bond of $1000.
  
  Negroes "taken:"
  
  Partially printed DS, Frederick Co, MD, October 20, 1823. Requesting the return of "two negroe boys named Hannibal and Grandison." "Taken and unjustly detained" by John H. Hillary.
  
  ADS, 5 x 7 in. 2pp, list with owners' names and No. Negroes "taken from 18 to 45 years." Lists 27 owners and about 67 negroes "taken." No date. Place is "South side of the road from P. Edward Courthouse to Chickentown in Spring Creek District." This is Virginia (Prince Edward), and may be men taken to build roads, railroads, fortifications, etc. by the State or Confederacy.
  
  Verification of Manumission:
  
  ADS, Frederick County, MD, December 12, 1809. Document states that John H. Smith came before the court and swore an oath that "...a Negro Man named Dick aged about forty seven years about five feet five inches high much pitted with the small pox middling dark complexion is the same Negro Dick manumitted by him by an Instrument of writing dated the 21st February 1805..."
  
  ADS, Frederick Co., MD, May 21, 1817. Edward Younger appeared before the court and swore that the Certificate of Manumission which he obtained in 1812 from William Ritchie, clerk of court in Frederick County, was lost in the City of Baltimore.
  
  ADS, 8 x 8 in., Frederick County, MD, August 7, 1816. Henry Stoner, Jr. appeared before the court and swore that "Negro Charles known by the name of Charles Bowens, aged about twenty one years [there follows a description including scars and a stammer in his speech] That he has known him a long time and that to his knowledge and belief he is a son of Frank or Francis Bowens by Sarah, manumitted negroes."
  
  ADS, 6 x 8 in. Frederick Co., MD, April 30, 1817. George Paine swears that Juliet, "...a yellow Woman, aged about thirty years,...is the same Juliet manumitted by Geo. Payne by deed of manumission bearing date the 25 day of April 1817."
  
  ADS, 6 x 8 in., Frederick Co., MD, June 17, 1817. Joseph Cromwell Esq. appeared in court and swore that the "...negroe Jeremiah ....is the same identical negroe Jeremiah manumitted by Charles Howard of said County on the 16 day of March 1811..."
  
  Other:
  
  ADS, 3.75 x 7.75 in., Wythe County, [VA], May 23, 1837. "Joseph Crockett this day exhibited to me the scalps of two young Red foxes, one of which he made oath he kill.d himself, the other was kill.d by Harry a slave of Robert Sayers..."
  
  Bill/receipt for catching, keeping and feeding a slave for 6 days, paid July 18, 1835.
  
  Bill for expenses "Pursuing the negroes that was taken and run off." N.d.
  
  Receipt for $1700 for Dolly and her three children: Dolly - 28 years of age; Harriet - 7; Sophy - 6; Levi - 3, "which I warrant to be sound and harty..." Copy of original dated April 17, 1838.
  

  Condition

  Variable. Most toned. A few separating at folds.
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