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Unnamed Mississippi Cook - MS-COOK163

Title: Unnamed Mississippi Cook - MS-COOK163
Identifier: MS-COOK163
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
Source: The Mississippi Free Trader
Date: May 4, 1850
Trade: Cook
Enslaver: E. Lewis, Auctioneer
Events: 4. To be sold by E. Lewis, Auctioneer
Home Location: Mississippi
Transcription: AUCTION SALE. THIS MORNING, at 10 o'clock, will be sold, sev-eral invoices of Fancy Dry Goods, such as fine Thread Laces, fancy Embroidered Dresses, Lawns, Prints, Cambries, Handkerchiefs, and many other articles, too numerous to mention. Also, at 11 1/2 o'clock, a fine Gold Hunting Lever Watch, 13 Rubies, guarantied a fine time piece, and a Gold Detached Lever Watch, fully Jewelled, 3 fine double barel English Guns, stub twist. At 12 o'clock, I shall offer to the highest bidder, one Negro Man, aged about 35 years, a good hostler and gardener. Also, a Negro Woman, aged 18 years, stout and guarantied sound, a good cook and washer, title in-disputable. Sale positive. E LEWIS, Auctioneer, Commerce street, two doors above S. Odell's. Natchez, May 4, 1850-s1t.
gender: Female