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<B>Revolutionary War-Dated Document Trading a Slave for 300 Acres</B></I> signed by Charles Hurst. One page, 9.25" x 7.5", np [Pennsylvania], May 8, 1778. It reads, in part: "<I>Mr. John Vanderin Junr. Bought of Charles Hurst a Negro man named Jack belonging to my Bro.r Timothy Hurst who is now in England for Three Hundred Acres of land part of two Thousand acres which Mr. Vanderin is Intitled to...as by Agreement of Twenty third of August 1776 ye said Charles Hurst warranties him against Timothy Hurst or any other Person.</B></I>" Fine condition, with file folds, writing dark, clear, and legible. Slave documents from this period are not common.
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