Peter - PETE13
Title
Peter - PETE13
Description
Enslaved youth
Creator
David Rattray
Source
Bridgehampton Museum Archive
Status
Enslaved
Sex
Male
Location or Address
East Hampton, New York
Enslaver or Household
Mary Buell
Source/s
Bridgehampton Museum Archive
Birth Date
June 8, 1801
Misc. Date
August 22, 1810
Biographical Notes
Know all me by these present that Mary Buell of the town of East Hampton county of suffolk and State of New York for and in consideration of the sum of seventy-five dollars to me in hand Jacob by Caleb Corwith of the town of Southampton county and State aforesaid the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged have granted bargained and sold and by these present doth grant bargain and sell unto him the said Caleb Corwith his executors and afoigns a certain negro Boy named Peter aged nine years old the eighth day of last June until he shall attain the age of twenty-five which will be in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty five and at the exhaustion of said term of time the said Caleb Corwith executors, administrators and afoigns shall at his own expense and legally emancipate said negro Boy Peter so that he may be free—
To have and to hold the aforesaid Negro Boy to him the said Caleb Corwith his executors administrators and afoigns and the said Mary Buell for myself and my heirs executors and administrators do and will warrant and forever defend the above bargained and said Boy unto him the said Caleb Corwith his heirs and afoigns against the lawful Claims of the persons whatsoever in which whomof slave I have hereunto my hand and said this twenty second day of August in the year of one thousand eight hundred and ten.
Mary Buell
Signed, Sealed and delivered in the presence of —
Jeremiah Miller
To have and to hold the aforesaid Negro Boy to him the said Caleb Corwith his executors administrators and afoigns and the said Mary Buell for myself and my heirs executors and administrators do and will warrant and forever defend the above bargained and said Boy unto him the said Caleb Corwith his heirs and afoigns against the lawful Claims of the persons whatsoever in which whomof slave I have hereunto my hand and said this twenty second day of August in the year of one thousand eight hundred and ten.
Mary Buell
Signed, Sealed and delivered in the presence of —
Jeremiah Miller
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Citation
David Rattray, “Peter - PETE13,” Plain Sight Project, accessed December 13, 2024, https://plainsightproject.org/items/show/1873.