Coffy
Gender: male
Race: black
Birthplace: Mina
Age (when this record was documented): 35.0
Selling Information
Last Name of Deceased: Remy
Estate Number: 08-A-010-023-1809
Name of the Buyer: Cadet Dejean
Grouping: sold or inventoried in a group
Currency of Inventory: US dollar = 1p
Inventory Value: 1100
Selling Currency: D
Selling Value: 800
Selling Value: 800
Document: Information of the document that these records were retrieved.
Document Location: St. James (including Acadians)
Document Date: 1809-06-29
Document Number (from the document): 257
Notary Name: Michel Cantrelle
Coder (person that encoded this record: Philip McLeod
Date of Inventory: 18090629
Date of Sale: 18090801
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
Skills and Occupations: excellent pickaxe, shovel, axeman
Skill: pick & Shovel (pelle), pioche, azodonero, espiochero
Skill: pick & Shovel (pelle), pioche, azodonero, espiochero
Skill: axeman, hache, hachador
Was this slave good at his/her primary skill?:
yes
Personality
Character of slave (described by seller or appraiser): good character "bon sujet"
Characteristics:
Family Information
Was this slave inventoried with his/her mother?:
no
Was this slave sold with his/her mother?:
no
Name of the mate: Marie Jeanne
Age of the mate: 40
Mate's Race: : black
Importation Information
Language group of Africans: : Gbe(Fon/Arada/Aja/Mina)
Was this slave being emancipated?:
no
Slave listed as dead?:
no