This document is a court case discussing a law suit to recover wages brought by Lydia Witten, a midwife who delivered the child of a slave women (referenced as "negro woman") without the consent of her master.
These documents are financial accounts detailing the sale of a group of sixty-one enslaved people and their buyers, referenced as "negroes" who are named in the document as well as lands owned by the estate of Thomas Farr.
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