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              <text>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. </text>
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              <text>16 November 1769</text>
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              <text>George D. Oberle III</text>
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