Note 24 — NOTES ON THE SLAVE IN NOUVELLE-FRANCE
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Saratoga 20 Feby 1785.
Dr Sir,
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.