Knox County slave register, William Hawkins registers Marget, 1806

Description: On Feb. 1, 1806 William Hawkins comes before Robert Buntin, Clerk of the Knox County Court of Common Pleas with a Negro woman named Marget, age 28. She was brought to this territory from South Carolina and she is to serve William Hawkins and his assignees for a term of twenty years. William is to provide Marget with sufficient clothing, washing, and lodging according to her station and degree. At the completion of her service she is not to become a county charge.
Origin: 1807
Contributor(s): Hawkins, William; Buntin, Robert; Marget;
Source: http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/kcpl/id/43467
Collection: Knox County Public Library
Copyright: No Copyright - United States;
Geography: Vincennes, Knox County, Indiana, United States
Subjects: Black people -- America -- History
African Americans -- History
Black people -- History
Slave records
Slave labor
Slavery
Slaveholders
Enslaved women
Enslaved men
Slavery -- Law and legislation
Indentured servants
Indiana -- Northwest
Indiana -- History
Vincennes (Ind.)
Knox County (Ind.)

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