I send by John Brown a Negro woman Named Sarah my Right & Lawful property--which you will Pleas Dispose of with the advis of your friends.--I have Wrote Mr Thomson on the same subjet--she has no fault to my knolage She will not Drink and so fare as I have seen she is honest--many many upertunitys she has had to have shown her Dishonesty had she been so in Clined ... I am sory to give you the troble--She cost me sixty five pounds should not Lick to sell her under.--Should you not be able to get Cash you may sell her for furrs of any Kind you think will sutt our market and send them down by the Return sladges; any trobl you my be at shall Pay for these. I am Dr. Sir. Your as hurede frind &c: HUGH MCADAM Mr. Morrison mercht. Montreal. As to a subsequent disposition of Sarah, see sale of June 6, 1789. [25] It is possibly the same mulatto boy, Dick, the subject of the following Bill of Sale: THUSBERRY octrs 19. 1785. Know all men By these presents that I William Gillchres in the County of Rutland and State of Vermount, Yoeman for and in consideration of twenty pound Law Money to you in hand paid by Joseph Barrey of Richmond in the County of Cheshier in State of New Hampshier yeoman whereof I acknoledg the receipt and barggained and sold one molate Boy six years old naimed Dick to him the said Joseph Barney and his heirs for ever, to have and to hold the said molater boy, I said William Gillchres who for myself and my heirs promise for ever to warrant socure and defend said promise against the lawful claims or demand of any person or persons in which I have set my hand, hereunto, and seal this nineteenth day of October one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six, in the eleventh year of endipendency. (Signed) WILLIAM GILLCHRES Signed, sealed in the presence of us (Signed) ELISHA FULLAN LUCY YEOMANS On the back of this document were written thus the following words: Novemer ye 15, 1786 Recevd the contents of the within bill by me Joseph Barrey 29 Nover 1786. Witness) Martin McEvoy present) John Carven Gillchress Bill of Morlato Boy nd. Dick Gun [26] I assume New York Currency, in which case the pound was 20 York shillings or $2.50. [27] 1787, January 10, George Brown and Sarah a Negress were married by Cave--it was probably the same Sarah.