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Bill of Sale for Lydia

January 19, 1799 Colonial & Early National (1746-1820)

Bill of sale for an enslaved woman named Lydia to Professor John Maclean Sr.

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Bill of Sale for Lydia, 1799; Letters; 1752-1807; Office of the President Records: Jonathan Dickinson to Harold W. Dodds Subgroup, Box 7, Folder 6; Princeton University Archives, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

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Know all men by these presents that we Thomas McDowell John Perrine Stephen Johnes & James Schurman Executors of the last will & Testament of David Williamson Dec'd. Late of South Brunswick County of Middlesex and State of New Jersey for the sum of one hundred & fifty dollars to
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