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Unrecorded NY Cook #37 - NY-COOK135

Title: Unrecorded NY Cook #37 - NY-COOK135
Identifier: NY-COOK135
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, African American women--History, Women artisans
Source: Daily Advertiser
Longworth's American Almanack
Date: April 5, 1799
1797
Trade: Cook
Gender: Female
Enslaver: Thomas Jones
Home: No. 74 Broadway Street
Home Location: Manhattan, New York
Events: 1. To be sold by Thomas Jones
Item Type: Advertisement
Directory
Notes: p. 3, col. 2
Transcription: TO BE SOLD, Two negro wenches, the mother a middle aged woman the daughter about nineteen years, are both excellent Cooks as well as house servants; are sold for no fault, but being discontented with their present situation, it is their desire to be sold to one master. For particulars, enquire at No. 74 Broadway.

Thomas Jones, physician, 74 Broadway