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Patience - MS-COOK58

Title: Patience - MS-COOK58
Identifier: MS-COOK58
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
Source: "Mississippi, Wilkinson County Newspaper Slave Ads, 1823-1849", Woodville Republican
Date: March 14, 1840
Trade: Cook
gender: Female
Enslaver: Jesse Edwards, sold by Thomas G. Stockett
events: 4. To be sold by Thomas G. Stockett
Notes: Wife of Lewis; In "Edwards to Feltus" Chapter, page 61
Transcription: The slave PATIENCE, wife of LEWIS, was to be sold by Thomas G. Stockett on April 14th; young and likely; good cook, washer, ironer; first rate fieldhand and acclimated.