Melite

Gender: female
Race: black
Age (when this record was documented): 20.0

Selling Information
Name of the Seller: Heirs of widow Nicolas Lauve
Name of the Buyer: Pierre Gaillard
Grouping: sold or inventoried in a group
Selling Currency: P
Selling Value: 2400
Selling Value: 2400

Document: Information of the document that these records were retrieved.
Document Location: Orleans (including Chapitoulas).[Jefferson 1825]
Document Date: 1818-02-11
Document Number (from the document): 65
Notary Name: M. DeArmas
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
Skills and Occupations: laundress
Skill: laundry, ironing, blanchisseur, repasseur

Personality

Family Information
Mother's Name: 1
Mother's Age: 43
Mother's Race: 3
Was this slave inventoried with his/her mother?: no
Was this slave sold with his/her mother?: yes

Importation Information
Was this slave being emancipated?: no
Slave listed as dead?: no