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- GLC#
- GLC01775
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- November 29, 1760
- Author/Creator
- Livingston, Philip, 1716-1778
- Title
- [Bill of sale for two enslaved women named Hannah and Jen]
- Place Written
- New York, New York
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket ; Height: 30.8 cm, Width: 19.3 cm
- Language
- English
- Primary time period
- Colonization and Settlement, 1585-1763
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
Bill of sale for two enslaved women named Hannah and Jen. The sale documents Philip Livingston as the seller. Jen's age is listed as 24 years old. They were sold for 100 pounds in New York currency to Rieneer Van Giesen. Cosigned by his son Philip Philip Livingston and by Richard Jeffery Jr. as witnesses. Seal is next to Livingston's signature.
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