Slavery in Pennsylvania: A Dissertation Submitted to the Board of University Studies of the Johns Hopkins University in Conformity with the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, 1910 — John Shaqi
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Slavery in Pennsylvania: A Dissertation Submitted to the Board of University Studies of the Johns Hopkins University in Conformity with the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, 1910
[113] St. John Crèvecoeur, 221; Kalm, I, 394; Acrelius, 169.
Personal papers contain numerous notices. "To 1 pr Shoes for
the negro ... 6" (sh.). MS. William Penn's Account Book,
1690-1693, p. 2 (1690). A "Bill rendered by Christian Grafford
to James Steel" is as follows: "Making old Holland Jeakit and
breeches fit for your Negero 0.3.0 Making 2 new Jeakits and
2 pair breeches of stripped Linen for both your Negeromans
0.14.0 And also for Little Negero boy 0.4.0 Making 2 pair
Leather Breeches, 1 for James Sanders and another for your
Negroeman Zeason 0.13.0." _Pa. Mag._, XXXIII, 121 (1740).
The bill rendered for the shoes of Thomas Penn's negroes
in 1764-1765 amounted to £7 7 sh. 3d., the price per pair
averaging about 7 sh. 6d. Penn-Physick MSS., IV, 223. Also
_ibid._, IV, 265, 267. _Cf._ Penn Papers, accounts (unbound),
Aug. 19, 1741; Christopher Marshall's Remembrancer, E, June 1,
1779.
[114] Thus Cato had on "two jackets, the uppermost a dark blue
half thick, lined with red flannel, the other a light blue
homespun flannel, without lining, ozenbrigs shirt, old leather
breeches, yarn stockings, old shoes, and an old beaver hat"
... _Pa. Gazette_, May 5, 1748. A negro from Chester County
wore "a lightish coloured cloath coat, with metal buttons,
and lined with striped linsey, a lightish linsey jacket with
sleeves, and red waistcoat, tow shirt, old lightish cloth
breeches, and linen drawers, blue stockings, and old shoes."
_Ibid._, Jan. 3, 1782. Judith wore "a green jacket, a blue
petticoat, old shoes, and grey stockings, and generally wears
silver bobbs in her ears." _Ibid._, Feb. 16, 1747-1748.
[115] _Amer. Weekly Mercury_, Jan. 31, 1721; Jan. 31, 1731; _Pa.
Gazette_, Oct. 22, 1747; May 5, 1748; Apr. 16, 1761; Jan. 3,
1782; _Pa. Journal_, Feb. 5, 1750-1751; _Pa. Mag._, XVIII, 385.
[116] _Pa. Gazette_, May 3, 1775. Supported by advertisements
_passim_.
[117] MS. Dickinson Papers, unclassified. A farm with a stone house
for negroes is mentioned in _Pa. Gaz._, June 26, 1746. "Part
of these slaves lived in their master's family, the others had
separate cabins on the farm where they reared families" ...
"Jacob Minshall Homestead" in _Reminiscence, Gleanings and
Thoughts_, No. I, 12.
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