Fortina

Gender: female
Race: mulatto rouge
Age (when this record was documented): 32.0
Other comments: Fortina is described as chronic runaway, "Simarrona" and is staying with Mme Azmard in Bahia San Luis. She is being exchanged for another slave, named Catiche, belonging to Mercier and to Francisco Marmillon.

Selling Information
Name of the Seller: Juan Souvie
Name of the Buyer: Claudio & other Mercier
Grouping: no prices at all

Document: Information of the document that these records were retrieved.
Document Location: Orleans (including Chapitoulas).[Jefferson 1825]
Document Date: 1780-06-28
Document Number (from the document): 578
Notary Name: Mazange
Date of Sale: 17800628
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

Personality
Character of slave (described by seller or appraiser): runaway "simarrona"
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