Chief Justice Marshall
Negro bill of sale
Title
Chief Justice Marshall
Negro bill of sale
Negro bill of sale
Subject
Subject - Slavery - Virginia
Description
Autograph manuscript, Bill of Sale, sale of a slave family dated 3 July 1787, 1 page,
John B. Johnson sells slave woman, named Dicey, and her child; on verso John Marshall writes bill of sale for mother and child to Jacqueline Ambler. Repository: CHS, Dixon - Welling collection, Ms 46829. Provenance Donor's father, Dr. James Clarke Welling, taught at Washington Academy of Westmoreland County, Virginia 1846-1849 In 1850 he married Genevieive Garnett and his daughter Genevieive Welling Wigfall resided in Richmond during the Civil War. If another connection is known please email: dixonwellingcollection@gmail.com
John B. Johnson sells slave woman, named Dicey, and her child; on verso John Marshall writes bill of sale for mother and child to Jacqueline Ambler. Repository: CHS, Dixon - Welling collection, Ms 46829. Provenance Donor's father, Dr. James Clarke Welling, taught at Washington Academy of Westmoreland County, Virginia 1846-1849 In 1850 he married Genevieive Garnett and his daughter Genevieive Welling Wigfall resided in Richmond during the Civil War. If another connection is known please email: dixonwellingcollection@gmail.com
Creator
Caroline Welling Van Deusen, Project Archivist
Rights
CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Text
Bill of Sale from John B. Johnson to John Marshall regarding the sale of a slave family dated 3 July 1787. John B. Johnson sells an African-American woman, named Dicey, and her child; on verso John Marshall writes bill of sale for this mother and child to Jacqueline Ambler. John Marshall of Virginia married Mary Ambler in 1783. The 1790 census shows Jacqueline Ambler, Esquire, as resident of Virginia.
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