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[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. Manuscript bill of sale for
[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. Manuscript bill of sale for
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[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. Manuscript bill of sale for enslaved African Americans "Edward" and "Jane." Wake County, NC, 14 September 1857.  

1p, 8 x 10 in. (toning, creasing at folds, chipping at edge lines). Docketed on verso.

Benjamin Marriott "for and in consideration of the sum of sixteen hundred Dollars to me in hand paid...have bargained sold and delivered to Rebecca W. Marriott two negro slaves, (viz) Edward and Jane...."

Rebecca Jones Watts Marriott (ca 1809-ca 1870) married Benjamin Marriott in 1843. A Benjamin Marriott of Wake County, North Carolina, is listed in the 1850 US Federal Census Slave Schedules as enslaving 29 individuals, a number which increased to 37 by the 1860 Census. Both Benjamin and Rebecca are alternatively listed in records as "Merritt," "Maritt," and "Mariott."  

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[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. Manuscript bill of sale for

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