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<p><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>[COLONIAL SLAVERY] </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'>Civil suits involving slave property. Manuscript DsS, 2pp, 4to, York County, PA, ca. 1760. In two separate damage suits, Benjamin Venables and Mary Givan charge David Kirkpatrick with taking “<i>one negroe man slave named Ceesar, one desk, one silver watch, one silver headed cane and one pair of large silver shoe buckles, the Proper negroe, goods and chattels of the same Benjamin</i>”; and in the second, charge Kirkpatrick took “<i>one negroe woman slave named Tiner, one negroe man slave named Harry one other negroe man slave named Matthew, one female negroe slave named Toll, one male negroe slave named Eli, one female negroe slave named Priscilla and one other female negroe slave named Esther, the Proper slaves of the same Benjamin & Mary</i>...” The plaintiffs claim damages in an amount totaling 450 pounds “<i>lawful money of Pennsylvania</i>...” Boldly penned and signed by </span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext; text-transform:uppercase'>James Tilghman</span></b><span style='font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'> (1716-1793) as attorney for the plaintiff. Tilghman was for a time the secretary of the land office for John Penn. He was considered a loyalist during the Revolution. The exact date of the suit is left out and therefore appears to be retained drafts. General moderate toning; chipping along edges with some paper loss of little affect to text; partial horizontal fold separations; o/w good condition.</span></p>
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