Chief Justice Marshall Bill of Sale
Title
Chief Justice Marshall 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: the donor, Miss Elizabeth Dixon Welling was daughter of Dr. James Clarke Welling 1825-1894.
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: the donor, Miss Elizabeth Dixon Welling was daughter of Dr. James Clarke Welling 1825-1894.
Creator
Caroline Welling Van Deusen, Project Archivist
Rights
CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Text
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 Jacqueline Ambler.
John Marshall
https://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/founders/JNML-01-01-02-0171 [accessed 07 Jan 2021]
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