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Bill of sale for Caleb Cox

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Call Number:
F0017
Repository:
University of Delaware Library Special Collections
Extent:
1 item (2 pages)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
MSS 0098, F0017, Bill of sale for Caleb Cox, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.
Date:
1832 march 27 (inclusive)
Creator:
Herdman, William, Herdman, Mary, and Thompson, John
Abstract:
Legal document stating that an enslaved boy named Caleb Cox has been sold by Mary and William Herdman, administrators of the estate of John Herdman, to John Thompson of New Castle, Delaware.

Legal document stating that an enslaved boy named Caleb Cox has been sold by Mary and William Herdman, administrators of the estate of John Herdman, to John Thompson of New Castle, Delaware.

Box 1, F0017: Shelved in SPEC MSS 0098 manuscript boxes

Purchase, 1975.

Finding aid encoded by Tiffany Saulter, August 2015.

This item forms part of MSS 0098 Delaware Miscellaneous Literary and Historical Manuscripts.

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University of Delaware Library Special Collections
Finding Aid Author
University of Delaware Library, Special Collections
Finding Aid Date
2015 August 26
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Collection Inventory

Bill of sale for Caleb Cox, 1832 March 27.
Box 1 Folder F0017

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