Chief Justice Marshall Slave Bill of Sale

Chief Justice Marshall Slave Bill of Sale

Subject - Slavery - Virginia

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 Jaquelin Ambler.

This bill of sale may be found in the Connecticut Historical Society, within the Dixon - Welling family collection, Ms 46829.

Provenance: the donor, Miss Elizabeth Dixon Welling, daughter of Dr. James Clarke Welling 1825-1894. president of George Washington University

Caroline Welling Van Deusen, Project Archivist

CC BY-NC-ND 3.0

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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