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Norfolk & Portsmouth Herald, January 1, 1830

 

Negroes at Auction.

                                                The undermentioned slaves not having been sold as

                                    heretofore advertised, at the Court House in Portsmouth, on 

                                    Wednesday, they             WILL BE SOLD,

This Day, the 1st Jan.

                                    At Tanner’s Creek Cross Roads, between the hours of 12 and 1

                                    o’clock,

Viz:

SIPP, aged 21 years; SOLOMON, aged 19, and MARIA, aged 22—

                                    the property of Richard Powell, dec’d,

                                                                                                   William Browne.

                                    Jan 1

                     

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WILL BE SOLD

Before the Court House door, in Portsmouth,

This Day, the 1st Jan.

at 11 o’clock,

3 or 4 valuable SLAVES,

                                   belonging to the estate of James Taylor, dec’d,

                                   Terms—Cash.

At the same time and p lace,

WILL BE HIRED, for the ensuing year,

The residue of the Slaves

                                   belonging to said estate, consisting of Men, Women, Boys and

                                   Girls.

                                                                        ARTHUR EMMERSON, Adm.

                                   Jan 1

 

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This Day, the 1st Jan.

At 10 ‘oclock [sic] at the foot of the Market House,

WILL BE HIRED,

To the highest bidder, for the ensuing year.

The Negroes belonging to

                                   the Estates of Caleb Boush, Margaret Haynes, and Wm.

                                   Nicholson.

                                                                         WM. B. Laub, Serg’t.

                                   Jan 1

 

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