A list of 145 enslaved persons divided by Friendfield and Point Plantation as well as adults, children and house people. The list, created for tax purposes, details which enslaved persons received clothes, blankets and shoes as well as jobs of specific enslaved persons. Makes notations that the enslaved person Minta was dead and that Washington was killed in a storm.
Memorandum of agreement between Charlotte Allston and Samuel Smith for the hire of enslaved persons. The agreement states that Charlotte Allston gives each enslaved person winter and summer clothes and shoes.
Articles of agreement between John Ball Jr., executor of the estate of John Ball Sr., and Midway and Kensington Plantations overseer Britton Bunch. The agreement outlines John Ball Jr.'s agreement to pay Britton Bunch $200, to have the authority to discharge him, Britton Bunch's share of plantation cattle and crops, an agreement that John Ball Jr. will "let Britton Bunch have a boy to wait & a woman to cook & wash for him," Bunch's agreement to take care of the enslaved persons, especially when sick and with "moderation and humanity and on no occasion to beat them with sticks nor at any one time to inflict more than twenty stripes when necessary to correct them & then with switches.
Articles of agreement between John Ball Jr., executor of the estate of John Ball Sr., and Pimlico Plantation overseer Samuel Lynes. The agreement outlines John Ball Jr.'s agreement to pay Samuel Lynes $500 a year, to have the authority to discharge him, Samuel Lynes' share of plantation cattle and crops, an agreement that John Ball Jr. will "furnish Samuel Lynes with a woman to cook & wash and a boy and a girl to wait on his family," Samuel Lynes' agreement to take care of the enslaved persons, especially when sick and with "moderation and humanity and is on no occasion to beat or suffer them to be beat with sticks" and "when necessary always to correct with switches."
Hand-colored engraving of financiers gathered at the Royal Exchange in London. Several Jewish figures are present in the scene, including Sir Moses Montefiore in conversation with Nathan Mayer Rothschild. Drawn and engraved by Isaac Robert Cruikshank and George Cruikshank, published London: Sherwood, Neely & Jones. From Life in London or, the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, esq., and his elegant friend, Corinthian Tom, accompanied by Bob Logic, the Oxonian, in their rambles and sprees through the Metropolis by Pierce Egan.
Black-and-white engraved portrait of historian Josephus (born Joseph ben Matityahu). Engraving by John B. Neagle. Frontispiece to The genuine works of Flavius Josephus, the Jewish historian : containing twenty books of the Jewish antiquities, seven books of the Jewish war, and the life of Josephus, written by himself... by the late William Whiston... Revised, and illustrated with notes, by the Rev. Samuel Burder..., published Boston: Printed and published by S. Walker, Newbury-Street.