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Title
Advertisement
Subject
Estate Sale
Slave Sale
Loudoun County
Stafford County
Description
Advertisement in the Virginia Gazette for a sale of the Plantation called Hollingsworth near Leesburg in Loudoun county. "A GREAT number of likely SLAVES, consisting of men, women, and children..." as well as livestock and implements. Also Mason's dwelling in Stafford county with another parcel of slaves including "several sawyers, two ship carpenters, a wheelwright and house carpenter and cooper, and a blacksmith, all under 25 years of age, and several very valuable house servants.
Creator
Virginia Gazette
Mason, Thomson
Source
NewsBank/Readex, Database: America's Historical Newspapers
Date
16 November 1769
Contributor
George D. Oberle III
Rights
NewsBank/Readex
Out of copyright
Files
Citation
Virginia Gazette and Mason, Thomson, “Advertisement,” Mason's Legacies, accessed April 27, 2024, https://masonslegacies.org/items/show/6.