Receipt from Gershom Wilmarth to Moses Brown for purchase of Caesar
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Receipt of a note for L34/17/9 for purchase of an enslaved man, Caesar, "about Twenty two years of age which Negro belong'd to Allen Brown Esq of providence and wass by me taken by Execution..." Also includes note from Allin Brown, 1764 June 8, selling and delivering Caesar to Moses Brown. On verso is a note in Moses Brown's hand: "Allen Brown, of a Negro. Freed by manumission."
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