Description:
Indenture, Savannah, Georgia, 13 August 1773.
Large format two page document on paper, with two smaller sheets appended, signed and sealed. concerning an Indian trading business owned by James Jackson and Andrew McLean, and transfer of the ownership of that business, with a delineation of its assets, including enslaved people. Old folds, tears and breaks along folds, old repairs on verso, delicate, 21 1/2 x 15 1/4 in.
Estimate $200-300
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James Jackson, Andrew McLean, SavannahJohn Dorfman
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