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Nathanial Rochester selling 3 negro boys, 1808

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ItemID
wmsl055
IDEntry
7716
Creator
Maryland Herald and Hagerstown Advertiser
Date
1808-03-11
Collection Location
Washington County Free Library
Coverage
Western Maryland, 1800-1864
Body

THE subscriber intending to discontinue his Nail Manufactory, has for sale three Negro Boys who will be offered at public sale, on Tuesday the 22 [? March] at the Courthouse square in Hagerstown, if not sold at private sate before that day. He will also offer at public sale, on the same day (if not sold before at private sale) a House and Lot in Rohrer's Addition to Elizabethtown, being the same in which J. Coke now resides and adjoining George Gresinger’s, on which is an excellent well of water.

N. ROCHESTER.
March 7, 1808

Notes

Nathaniel Rochester was Sheriff of Washington County 1804-1806. See Sheriff Nathaniel Rochester's Records, Washington County, 1804-1806