BIB_ID
105208
Accession number
MA Unassigned
Creator
Harper, Robert Goodloe, 1765-1825.
Display Date
1788 June 7.
Description
1 item (1 page)
Notes
Harper lists the names of the two men to which this document is addressed at the top of the page, but they have not been identified.
Provenance
From Ford Collection.
Summary
Stating that, if either of the two men should purchase "from Mr. Benjamin Smith of Georgia a negro man slave named Sam lately in the possession of Benjamin Thompson and hired by him to some gentlemen of the [Congaree?]", he will warrant to the purchaser "the property of the said slave, against the lawful claim or recovery of the abovementioned Benjamin Thompson or any claiming under him: and answer to any damage that such purchaser may sustain at any time by such claim....".
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