I hereby bargain, sell and convey an absolute property to John Marshall for 70 pounds which I have this day received from him one Negro wench named Dixie with her child and do bend myself, my heirs execratory & administrators to warrant and defend a complete and totally unencumbered to the said slave and her issue.
John B Johnson July 3, 1787
VERSO
For the wither mentioned some of 70 pounds which I have received I bargain, sell the whither mentioned slaves to Jacquelin Ambler.
John Marshall
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