Chaita
Chemta (Shemta) sounds like a Nar (Moor) name.
Gender: male
Race: black
Birthplace: Imputed African based on age
Age Category: adult
Age (when this record was documented): 0.0
Other comments: Larchevesque sold a 16 x 40 arpent planation to the Ursuline sisters the purchase price is 3 slaves and 500 livres. In Ursulines delib 18,dates Oct. 9 & 20, 1734.
Selling Information
Name of the Seller: Ursuline Sisters
Name of the Buyer: Jacques Larchevesque
Grouping: no prices at all
Selling Currency: l
Selling Value: 500
Selling Value: 100
Document: Information of the document that these records were retrieved.
Document Location: Orleans (including Chapitoulas).[Jefferson 1825]
Document Date: 1736-02-08
Document Number (from the document): 1
Coder (person that encoded this record: Philip McLeod
Type of document:
Any documents involving maroons, including reports of runaways, interrogation of caputred runaways,
and testimony by slaves about runaways:
no
Language: French
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
Personality
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