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Ardell - MS-COOK204

Title: Ardell - MS-COOK204
Identifier: MS-COOK204
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
Source: Vicksburg Daily Whig
Date: March 19, 1856
Trade: Cook
Enslaver: Wm. McRae
events: 4. To be sold by Wm. McRae
Transcription: FOR SALE. THE FOLLOWING NEGROES ARE OFFERED at private sale; Caroline, 38 years of age; Robert 11 years; Henry 9 years; Isaac, 6 years; Fanny, 4 years; Sarah 2 years; Judy, infant, 9 months; one family. Daniel 12 years of age; Lindsey, 11 years; Bob, 11 years; Chasman, 10 years; Willis, 9 years; Ardell, 27 years, a valuable ser-vant, and a fine Washer, Ironer and Cook; John, 18 years, a very fair hand; Toby and Jenny, a pair of negroes, 45 and 50 years of age. WM. McRAE, mar19 Agent.