Accounts-- Expenses and payments received recorded by Benjamin Chew, Jr. for Mary Oswald Chew, 1811
Item
- Title
- Accounts-- Expenses and payments received recorded by Benjamin Chew, Jr. for Mary Oswald Chew, 1811
- Description
- Copy of a list of accounts by Benjamin Chew, Jr. for his mother, Elizabeth Oswald Chew. The account includes a wide range of expenses and services, including medical, slave labor, and rent money received from tenants. There are multiple transactions referring to a likely-enslaved man named John, often referred to as Black John or Negro John, including receipt of a $70 payment from a Mr. Rodemaker for John's "time and service" in October 1810. There is also a payment for the bleeding of a negro woman (possibly "Hannah"), for $2.50.
- Type
- text
- Creator
- Chew, Benjamin, 1758-1844
- Date Created
- 1811
- Format
- manuscript
- Is Part Of
- Chew family papers (2050) | Box 68A | Folder 2
- Spatial Coverage
- Philadelphia (Pa.)
- Subject
- Slavery--United States--History |Chew family |Plantations--Maryland
- Extent
- 1 page
- Language
- eng
- Rights
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- Item sets
- Chew Family Papers
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