Alex. Phelps, bill of sale, to Eleazar Wheelock, 1769 January 30
Date30 January, 1769
ms number769130-1
abstractColonel Alexander Phelps to Eleazar Wheelock. Bill of sale for an enslaved woman named Dinah. 1769 Jan 30. (Hebron).
Jan 30, 1769
added later in pencil
Know all men by theſe presents that I Alexander Phelps
of Hebron in the County of Hartford and Colony of Connecticut for
the Consideration of fifty pounds sterling money of Great
Brittain Received to my full Satisfaction of the Revd
Eleazer Wheelock DD. of Lebanon in ye County of Windham and Colony afore said, Do Sell Convey, Confirm and
Deliver unto him the said Wheelock his Heirs &
Aſsigns, one certain Negro woman named Dinah aged
about twenty years to have and to hold sd Negro woman as
a ſervant for Life, Witneſs my Hand & Seal this 30th of January AD 1769 ſigned ſealed
& Delivered
Alexander Phelps
In Presence of -
Ebez; Green
Silas Dewey
I Alexander Phelps, on Condition the negro woman named
in the above written Bill, shall Die or prove Lame or uſeleſs, Do promiſ
to pay to the Revd
Eleazer Wheelock above named the above said sum of
fifty pounds Sterling, when and soon as sd negro
woman Shall become uſeleſs as above sd
with the Lawfull Interest. ⁓ Witneſs my Hand this 30th of January 1769
Alexander Phelps
In presence of -
Ebez; Green
Silas Dewey
Colo
Phelps’s Bill of sale for Dina returned
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