Mer
Gender: male
Race: black
Age Category: adult
Age (when this record was documented): 0.0
Other comments: Owner could be Flamand. He reports 3 Congo runaway slaves stole a calf and broke into hut of slave named Mere and stole chemises of his wife, linens,chaudiere & 10 livres in silver. Mercure is suspected of this previous theft as well as theft of calf.
Selling Information
Name of the Seller: Doriocourt (owner)
Grouping: no prices at all
Document: Information of the document that these records were retrieved.
Document Location: Orleans (including Chapitoulas).[Jefferson 1825]
Document Date: 1765-09-16
Document Number (from the document): 02
Coder (person that encoded this record: Gwendolyn Hall
Type of document:
Any documents involving maroons, including reports of runaways, interrogation of caputred runaways,
and testimony by slaves about runaways:
yes
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