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Unnamed Mississippi Cook - MS-COOK113

Title: Unnamed Mississippi Cook - MS-COOK113
Identifier: MS-COOK113
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
Source: Vicksburg Daily Whig
Date: November 20, 1846
Trade: Cook
gender: Female
Enslaver: D. Hansbrough & Co.
events: 4. To be sold by D. Hansbrough
Notes: May be the same 38 year old MS-COOK112, but does not list her as washer or ironer
Transcription: City Auction. NEGROES FOR SALE--One family, man wo-man and child; young, very likely; one woman 20 years old, field hand; one woman, 27 years of age, house servant or field hand; one very likely wo-man and child, first rate cook and general house ser-vant; one man, 20 years old, good drayman, and can make himself generally useful; one woman, 38 years old, unsurpassed in the house; one family, woman and two daughters, field hands. Bargains are of-fered. nov20 D. HANSBROUGH & CO.