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Sale 74: The Westpex Auction

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Slavery Related

Lot 2452    

(Slavery) 1865 (Apr. 7) Estate Appraisal including 15 Slaves, blue one-page document for the Estate of Littleton House including "Eli (negro boy)" $1300; "Ledler "" $1400; "Matilda " girl" $700" etc., document docketed as "Filed 5 Septr. 1865, Stamped & Cancelled as the Law directs D.C. Williams" and bearing faulty U.S. 5¢ certificate (R24c) manuscript cancelled "April 7 1865", Fine and scarce estate appraisal of slaves one month before the end of the war.
Estimate    $300 - 400.

Realized: $650

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