Marrinette

Gender: female
Race: black
Birthplace: St Domingue
Age (when this record was documented): 25.0
Other comments: This slave is a marroon and she hasn't been found, she was sold 1st 1789 Oct he gives La Fleur a negrite brute of 12-15 years in garanty of the Runaway

Selling Information
Name of the Seller: Henri Fontenau
Name of the Buyer: Jacques Lafleur
Grouping: no prices at all

Document: Information of the document that these records were retrieved.
Document Location: St. Landry (Opelousas Post). [Calcasieu 1840, Cameron 1870, Acadia 1886, Evangeline 1908, Allen 1910, Jefferson Davis 1912, beaureguard 1912]
Document Date: 1791-05-07
Document Number (from the document): 0
Date of Sale: 17910507
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
Character of slave (described by seller or appraiser): runaway "maroon"
Characteristics:

Family Information
Was this slave inventoried with his/her mother?: no
Was this slave sold with his/her mother?: no

Importation Information
Trade place of embarkation: : St. Domingue/Haiti
Was this slave being emancipated?: no
Slave listed as dead?: no