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A handwritten bill of sale for a woman named Leah and her two daughters, Sarah and Mariah, for the amount of $750 to Robert Watson. The document is handwritten in brown ink on a square sheet of off-white paper. At top left it is dated [1822 Jany. 8th]. It reads in part: [Rcd. of Robert Watson seven / hundred & fifty dollars, in full payment / for a negro woman (Leah) and her / two children Sarah&

  • By Joseph Pearson, American, Robert Watson, Unidentified Child or Children, Unidentified Woman or Women
  • Credit: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from the Liljenquist Family Collection
  • Rights: CC0