Knox County slave register, Benjamin D. Price registers Milly Gorden, 1807
| Description: |
On Feb. 10, 1807 Benjamin D. Price comes before Robert Buntin, Clerk of the Knox County Court of Common Pleas Indiana Territory and brings a woman named Milly Gorden, age 60. Milly was brought into this territory from Kentucky and she is to serve Benjamin and his assignees for a term of twenty years. He is to provide Milly with sufficient clothing, lodging and washing according to her degree and station and at the completion of her term she is not to become a cost to the county. |
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| Origin: | 1807 |
| Contributor(s): |
Price, Benjamin; Buntin, Robert; Gordon, Milly; |
| Source: |
http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/kcpl/id/43484 |
| 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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