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Nathanial Rochester selling 3 negro boys, 1808

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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

Slaves for sale, David Meskimen, near Hancock, 1799

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To be disposed of
For Cash or Land in the Western Country. - —
A LIKELY NEGRO WENCH, twenty- six years old with three Children viz. A GIRL & TWO BOYS, the Girl is about five, the eldest boy three and the other two years old, all born and raised in the State of Maryland For terms end further particulars, apply to the subscriber, living on Potomack, seven miles above Hancock-Town, Washington County, Maryland.
DAVID MESKIMEN.
February 19, 1799.