Unnamed Mississippi Cook - MS-COOK7
Item
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Title
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Unnamed Mississippi Cook - MS-COOK7
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Identifier
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MS-COOK7
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Source
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Natchez Gazette
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Date
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January 6, 1819
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gender
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Female
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Enslaver
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Samuel Richardson
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Home
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Point Pleasant
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events
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4. To be sold by Samuel Richardson
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Notes
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Meat and Pastry cook
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Transcription
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Point Pleasant for Sale. THE subscriber offers for sale the following property, possession of which will be given on the first day of Feb-ruary next. 477 American acres of Land, 160 cleared and under cul-tivation 30 NEGROES—8 men and 2 boys, 8 women, 2 girls, and 10 children—20 of the above negroes are Cotton Pick-ers 7 Work Horses of the best kind 60 head of CATTLE 2 pairs of work Oxen 150 head of Hogs 12 head of Sheep Corn and Fodder—and a very plentiful supply of FARM-ING UTENSILS HOUSEHOLD AND KITCHEN FURNITURE The above mentioned Negroes are all uncommonly likely; and, with the exception of two women, I have owned and attended to them for the last four years, and can (in truth) say they are as strictly honest, faith-ful and obedient slaves as I ever knew. Amongst them are two invaluable house servants; a man servant 23 years old, not surpassed for honesty and fidelity by any on earth; A woman Cook, equal to any, both as a meat and pastry one; a first rate Washer-woman and Ironer, 26 years of age. The land offered is well known by very many to be far superior to any on the banks of the Mississippi from its source to its mouth, as the inundation of said river ini the year 1815 will well prove. Price for the above property 50,000 in cash. Samuel Richardson. January 6. 2-tf
