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Hannah - MS-COOK44

Title: Hannah - MS-COOK44
Identifier: MS-COOK44
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
Source: The Mississippi Free Trader
Date: January 31, 1839
Trade: Cook
gender: Female
Enslaver: Walker Doores, Guardian for Hunter H. Southworth and Sold by Barrett & Dolbeare
events: 4. To be sold by Walker Doores, Guardian of Hunter H. Southworth, and Auctioneers Barret & Dolbeare
Transcription: GREAT ATTRACTION, AND positive sale of negroes at Auction, upon a credit of twelve months, the purchaser giving joint notes. Will be sold on Saturday, March 2d, 1839, in front of our auction rooms, corner of Main and Wall streets, 'the, following very likely negroes, all well acclimated, and titles perfectly indisputable: Billy, an excellent field hand, John, aged 15, a very likely and active boy, Sarah, a first rate washer and ironer, Lucy and child, a first rate washer, &c. Mary, aged 8 years, very smart, Hannah, a good cook. The above sale by a decree of the probate court of Adams county, Miss. WALKER DOORES, Guardian for Hunter H. Southworth. BARRETT & DOLBEARE, Auctioneers. Jan. 31.—wtds—27.