Bill of sale for an enslaved person, 1737 June 16

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Providence : 16 : June : 1737 : Know all Persons w^m itt may Concern that I Josiah Cotton of Providence Clerk have the Day & Date Above Sold unto M^r James Linsey of Mendon, My Negro Boy Named Ceesar in Witness hereto I do now affix my Name.

Josiah Cotton

I the subscriber heath mad over and Sold his niger boy named Siser niger all my gud wit and titel to Caruchpond

James Lindsey

{from Lucretia Pond Papers (v. 32 AL)}