Slave pass, 1771 October 29-30.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Slave pass, 1771 October 29-30.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/13727709

Safe conduct pass for two slaves, "Negro Bobb, coachman & Negro George, postillion", to travel from Fredericksburg, Virginia, to Williamsburg "with a coach and six horses". Signed by Mercer's steward, Thomas Oliver. Requests the slaves be afforded hospitality at inns along the way, as was the usual custom; reverse contains account of expenses signed by Jonathan Martin.

2 p. ; 24 cm.

Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6822275

Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library

Related Entities

There are 3 Entities related to this resource.

Mercer, James, 1736-1793

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jj4c8z (person)

James Mercer (February 26, 1736 – October 31, 1793), was an American lawyer, military officer, planter, jurist, and politician. Born at his family's Marlborough plantation in Stafford County in the Colony of Virginia, Mercer received a private education suitable as well as access to his father's library, if not the best, then one of the best in the area. Mercer traveled to Williamsburg for higher education under prominent lawyer George Wythe and others, and graduated from the College of Willi...

Martin, Jonathan, 1776-1823

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6nw35kh (person)

Oliver, Thomas F. (Thomas Fitch), 1757-1797

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6d23hgv (person)