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Benjamin discusses concern for situation of, and securing places for, "my Black People". Names two women, Teeny and Phillis, and children.
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Broadside notification describing farm equipment and animals for sale, of late Samuel Chew. Also describes sale of "service of a considerable number of Black People, men, women and children, so as however not to separate families, and provided the situation be acceptable to the Blacks themselves."
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Lists value of "Negroe men, women, and children" as well as land, livestock and crops.
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For attendance on "three negro women" at $2 each. $6 paid May 11, 1809.
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Plantation accounts; mention of Mr. George's "Negro Woman", and for delivering women named Harriet and Fanny.
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Regarding payment of time of two "negro women"
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Regarding two "negro women", one neamed Rachel, communicated from Fitzsimons to Chew
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Lists Hannah's family relationships (her mother, Rachel) and that she will be enslaved until age 28.
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Several documents listing time owed, for women Hannah and Rachel, to Benjamin Chew from Frederick Smyth and his wife. One document implies the two will have to pay Hannah's wages to Benjamin Chew until she is 28, based on a balance of account from April 22, 1792.
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Letter concerning ham, wheat, and linen order for men and women's clothing.
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Eliza Sprout Turner (1826-1903) was a Philadelphia educator, writer, and progressive women's activist. She founded the New Centry Trust (orginally called the New Century Working Woman’s Guild) in 1893.
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Mary E. Mumford was president of the New Century Guild from 1889 to 1892. She was also president of the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania.