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Mary - MS-COOK100

Title: Mary - MS-COOK100
Identifier: MS-COOK100
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
Source: Vicksburg Daily Whig
Date: March 27, 1846
Trade: Cook
gender: Female
Enslaver: Livingston, Hanna & Co.
Home: Washington St.
events: 4. To be sold by Livinston, Hanna & Co.
Notes: To be sold with her 11 year old daughter
Transcription: More Negroes Going at Auction. THIS MORNING at 10 o'clock, in front of our Sales Room will be sold to the highest bidder for cash, three very likely negroes. MARY, a first rate cook, washer and ironer, 32 years old, and her daughter, aged 11—an excellent house and field girl. JIM, a mulatto boy 10 years of age, very likely and intelligent. The above negroes are not to be sold for any faults, and the titles are clear. LIVINGSTON, HANNA & Co. mar 27 No. 374, Washington street.