Knox County slave register, Mathias Rose registers Milly, 1805

Description:	On Nov. 28, 1805 Mathias Rose comes before Robert Buntin, Clerk of the Knox County Court of Common Pleas with a Negro woman named Milly age 15 and 6 months. She has been brought to this territory from Kentucky. Milly is to serve Mathias Rose and his assignees for a term of seventy years. Mathias is to provide Milly with proper clothing, food and shelter according to her degree and station, and she is not to become a county charge at the end of her service.
Origin:	1807
Contributor(s):	Milly; Rose, Mathias; Buntin, Robert;
Source:	http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/kcpl/id/43481
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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