Lot 402
1730 Bill of Lading For A Slave Girl. Partly-printed 5x9½" shipping document listing "one Negro Girl on the Proper acct & Risque of Thomas Oxnard"as freight on the ship Merrimack, bound from Barbatos to Salem, Mass., 7 Aug. 1732. The freight charge is three pounds five shillings Boston currency. In the margin is the description: "a piece of lead markt T O & lynd wth aps of tape round her neck." A manuscript "mortality excepted" note shows no liability should the slave girl die. Signed by Capt. Edmund Gale. On 11 Sept. 1732, the owner signed on verso, "Recvd the Negro wth.in mentiond & paid the Freight." A chilling document. Very good; toning and small expert repairs.
Estimated Value $1,500 - 2,000.
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