Collection Name
Collection Name
About
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Slaves for Sale
Media Items
Media Items
Media Items
ItemID
wmsl026
IDEntry
7505
Creator
Washington Spy
Date
1796-02-18
Collection Location
Washington County Free Library
Subject
Coverage
Western Maryland, 1800-1864
Body
Sheriff’s Sale,
A NEGRO Man who calls himself Jack, about 25 years of age, handsome, healthy and strong ; he was committed to my care on the 20th of October last as a runaway, and acknowledge himself to be a slave. He will be sold at public Vendue at two o'clock, on Saturday the instant, at the Sheriff’s office for his fees.
Rezin Davis, Sheriff,
Hagerstown, February 18, 1796.