Measures for Negro's shoes, June 11, 1788

Item

Title

Measures for Negro's shoes, June 11, 1788

Description

Matthew Weeks to Benjamin Chew, listing the measurements for shoes for the enslaved persons at Whitehall. Weeks writes "I send the measuers of your neaguers for their shoes to be made by...". He lists the measurements of seventeen individuals, including Ben, Abb [Abby], Sharper, Dick, Cato, Jack, Jim, Lemon, Enus [Enos], Aaron, Bill, Jim [Jem], Silvy [Sylvia], Rachel, "Luse" [Lucy], Nan, and "Jain" [Jane?]. He ends the letter addressing the shoes' widths: "All I Can say to the weth [width] of the shews is for them to Made on Braid Lasts ad Raised High in the instep Acording to the lenth of the shews."

Identifier

6105-3

Type

text

Creator

Weeks, Matthew

Date Created

1788-06-11

Format

manuscript

Is Part Of

Chew family papers (2050) | Box 775 | Folder 2

Spatial Coverage

Whitehall (De.)

Subject

Slavery--United States--History |Chew family

Extent

2 pages

Language

eng

Rights

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Item sets

Chew Family Papers