Sanzon
Gender: male
Race: black
Age Category: adult
Age (when this record was documented): 0.0
Other comments: Seller is acting under pwr of atty from Evan Jones.
Selling Information
Name of the Seller: Juan Francisco Merieult
Name of the Buyer: Buenaventura Bahy
Grouping: sold or inventoried as an individual
Selling Currency: f
Selling Value: 430
Selling Value: 753
Document: Information of the document that these records were retrieved.
Document Location: Orleans (including Chapitoulas).[Jefferson 1825]
Document Date: 1793-12-10
Document Number (from the document): 986
Notary Name: Pedesclaux
Coder (person that encoded this record: Mabel Macias
Date of Sale: 17931210
Type of document:
Any documents involving maroons, including reports of runaways, interrogation of caputred runaways,
and testimony by slaves about runaways:
yes
Language: Spanish
Is this document of linguistic interest?:
no
Is this inventory or sale of an estate of a free person of African descent?:
no
Skill and Trade Information
Skills and Occupations: cook
Skill: cook, cuisinier, cocinero
Personality
Character of slave (described by seller or appraiser): runaway "simarron"
Characteristics:
Family Information
Was this slave inventoried with his/her mother?:
no
Was this slave sold with his/her mother?:
no
Importation Information
Was this slave being emancipated?:
no
Slave listed as dead?:
no