Unnamed Carpenter #39 - CAR138
Title
Unnamed Carpenter #39 - CAR138
Identifier
CAR138
Subject
African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans, Carpenters
Source
South Carolina and American General Gazette
Date
January 14, 1771
Trade
Carpenter
Gender
Male
Enslaver
Alexander Hext
Home Location
Charleston, South Carolina
Events
1. To be sold by Jane Wilkie, executrix and John Wilkie, executor of Alexander Hext
Item Type
Advertisement
Transcription
To be sold by publick outcry, at Mr. Joseph Levy’s at New-Market, on Friday the 8th day of February next, if a fair day, if otherwise: on the first fair day thereafter.
THIRTY-FIVE valuable NE-GROES, mostly country-born, being part o the personal estate of Mr. ALEXANDER HEXT, deceased, and sold to pay off the debts of the said estate, consisting of one driver, two house-carpenters, two pair of sawyers, a cooper, several house-wenches, and handy boys and girls, and the rest good field slaves, thought not inferiour to any in the province. The conditions of the sale are, all sums under two hundred pounds to be cash, and for all above, credit will be given until the first day of January 1772, paying interest from the day of sale, and giving approved security. All persons indebted to the said estate, are desired to make immediate payment ; and those that have any demands against it, to give in their accounts, properly attested, by that time, to
JANE WILKIE, Executrix
JOHN WILKIE, Executor.
THIRTY-FIVE valuable NE-GROES, mostly country-born, being part o the personal estate of Mr. ALEXANDER HEXT, deceased, and sold to pay off the debts of the said estate, consisting of one driver, two house-carpenters, two pair of sawyers, a cooper, several house-wenches, and handy boys and girls, and the rest good field slaves, thought not inferiour to any in the province. The conditions of the sale are, all sums under two hundred pounds to be cash, and for all above, credit will be given until the first day of January 1772, paying interest from the day of sale, and giving approved security. All persons indebted to the said estate, are desired to make immediate payment ; and those that have any demands against it, to give in their accounts, properly attested, by that time, to
JANE WILKIE, Executrix
JOHN WILKIE, Executor.
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