This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/17/2022
[SLAVERY]. SUMMERS, E. S. Autograph Receipt Signed by E. S. Summers and Elizabeth MCollough for the sale of a “Negrow boy Jake” for $450, Twelfth of February 1830. 1-page, oblong 8vo (130 x 193 mm), on plain white paper. Three vertical creases, margins uneven with occasional chipping, toned, occasional smudges, some mild thumbsoiling. THIS RECEIPT, WRITTEN AND SIGNED BY SUMMERS, IS FOR “NEGROW BOY JAKE ABOUT TWENTY FOUR YEARS OF AGE…” The purchaser (or the purchaser’s agent) Elizabeth MCollough [sic] has signed it in the lower right-hand corner. “Rec’d of Lewis Chrisman & Geor & Jno Stuarts four hundred and fifty dollars in full consideration of a Negrow boy Jake about twenty four years of age which said negrow I warrant and forever defend from myself my hier [sic] executors or administrators on any + every other person lawfully Claiming the Same or any part thereof givin [sic] under my hand and Seal at Newberry 1st House the twelfth of February 1830”. On the verso, written in an unknown hand is: “Bill of Sail [sic] Jacob $450”.