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Lot# 494 - Auction 284 - 290

  • Lot# : 494 Jamaica

    1799 (June 20): Entire Lettersheet from Montego Bay to Scotland with interesting content: "By favour of Mr. James Stothart Esquire" with interesting content: "If you please to intend the girl to me for three years, then to have her full freedom. Upon these terms I will give her one new Negro Girl, when the Indenture is delivered to me.....The woman of coulour on York Estate of whom there are 50 are all to be sold soon for £100 each." Ex Rigby Postal History Auctions.
    Starting bid : 300 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold