Note referencing purchase of coffin by Benjamin Chew for Joseph Turner estate, 1788
Item
- Title
- Note referencing purchase of coffin by Benjamin Chew for Joseph Turner estate, 1788
- Description
- Small note referring to the purchase of a poplar coffin from Jesse Williams for 1.15 pounds. The coffin was paid for by Benjamin Chew, Jr. for a man or boy named Hampshire, formerly a slave on the Joseph Turner estate.
- Identifier
- 19228
- Type
- text
- Creator
- Chew, Benjamin, 1722-1810
- Date Created
- 1788
- Format
- manuscript
- Is Part Of
- Chew family papers (2050) | Box 77 | Folder 27
- Spatial Coverage
- Philadelphia (Pa.)
- Subject
- Slavery--United States--History |Chew family
- Extent
- 2 pages
- Language
- eng
- Rights
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- Item sets
- Chew Family Papers
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