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Collection Reference Number GLC09345.01
From Archive Folder Documents Relating to 1754-1764 
Title Legal document transferring a slave woman's ownership
Date 5 February 1762
Document Type Legal document; Business and financial document
Content Description Legal document from Nausau Island, New York, conveying a "Negro woman called…Candes thirty odd years of age" to Joseph Coles for 65 pounds, from Thomas Smith and John Butler, executors of the estate of Richard Butler.
Subjects Law  African American History  Women's History  Slavery  
Theme African Americans; Slavery & Abolition; Women in American History
Sub-collection The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859