Squire Boone promissory note to Marsham Brashear, 1783 January 27.

Squire Boone promissory note to Marsham Brashear, 1783 January 27.

Asturgus, James.

Boone, Squire, 1744-1815.

Chapline, Abraham, 1754-1824.

Brashear, Marsham.

Slaves--Kentucky--Lincoln County.

Promissory notes--Kentucky--Lincoln County--18th century.

Promissory note of Squire Boone, dated January 27, 1783 from Lincoln County, Virginia (now Kentucky), in which he promises to provide a "Likely Young Country Born Negro man" to Marsham Brashear or the "penal sum of Two hundred pounds Specie ..." Witnessed by Abraham Chapeline and James Asturgus.

Boone, Squire, 1744-1815.

Special Collections, John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

1783-01-27

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MS 2013.4

Ink on paper.

Know all men by these presents that I
Squire Boone of Lincoln County or my do
promise & oblige my self my heirs or
assigns to Deliver or cause to be Delivered
to Marsham Brashear his heirs or asseg
One Likely Young Country Born Negro
Between the man about the Age of Twenty
young Years of Age to have & to hold
the same & I the s^d. Squire Boone do
bind my self my heirs & asseges for the
true performance of above bargain in
the penal sum of Two hundred pouns
Specie the Bargain to be compleated on or be
fore the first Day of Decem^r. Next In wit
ness Where of I have hereunto Sett my
hand & Seal this 27. day, Janu^y 1783,

In presence of us
A. Chapline
Jas A Sturgus

Squire Boone