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Collection Reference Number GLC09028.12
From Archive Folder Collection of documents relating to U.S. Marshal, Watson Freeman 
Title Receipt for payment of wages
Date 17 November 1809
Author Eldrige, Simon (fl. 1809)  
Document Type Business and financial document
Content Description Received $7.60 for payment of "my Blak [sic] boy's wage..." Possibly Eldridge's African American slave or servant.
Subjects Slavery  African American History  Money  
People Eldridge, Simon (fl. 1809)  
Theme African Americans; Slavery & Abolition
Sub-collection The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859