Henry Lloyd,
Henry Lloyd,
Business Papers
(1725-1759)
Reproduced by Alan Singer
in
1687-1787: Slave Life at Lloyd Manor.
N.B. The paragraphing and paragraph numbers provided are not part of the original document..
Henry Lloyd, letter concerning Aurelia, 1725
Henry Lloyd to Mrs. Smith, 1725 (excerpt)
Note: Henry Lloyd was managing his sister's finances, including the income she could make from hiring out her slave, Aurelia, who was then living in another city.
I find Aurelia is with you in order to be forwarded to me, but that she is obstinate in refuseing to come. I am to well used to Negroes resolutions to have any regard to them. What I aim at is the complyance with my Sister Lloyds desire & interest. I have no business for [Aurelia] & had much rather she were hyred out in the City & shall be much oblidged to you if you'l please to contribute towards hyreing her into some good family on as good terms as you can which will be most for my Sisters intrest & by far more agreeable to me than to have her with me. . . . In the mean time If she remains as she is it may be as Well. . . .
Your H[umble] S[ervant] H Lloyd
Henry Lloyd, letter concerning Aurelia, 1730
Henry Lloyd to Henry Lane, 1730 (excerpt)
Note: After Joseph Lloyd died in 1729, Henry Lloyd managed his estate, which included arranging the sale and trade to Henry Lane of at least some of Joseph Lloyd's slaves; included in the arrangement was Aurelia, then twenty-five, and her child. Within a few months, the deal began falling apart.
The principal occasion of this [letter] is to inform you that since my being in New York I received a Letter from my Sister Lloyd (now Minzies) in answer to one I wrote her acquainting her with [the negotiations over Joseph Lloyd's estate.] She expresses a high resentment at the mention of selling the Negros and says will have them again if it cost her ten times the value. [And so I] . . . have Deferred proceeding any further on sale of the Negros since she tells me by them the money shall without fail be paid. [The man to whom they owed money agreed to honor the promise to pay] . . . my letter having reached [him] the day Aurelia was to be Exposed to sale at Vandue.
Bill of Sale for Jack Coper (1752-1757)
{1}To all Christian People To whome Those Presents shall Come Creating
{2}No ye that I Israel Brush of Huntington in Suffolk County and in the Colony of New York
{3}for and in the Consideration of the sum of forty Pounds Lawfull Currant Mony of the Province of New York to me in hand Paid Before the Insealing and Delivery of these Presents by Tredwell Brush of the same Town & County & Colony afore said
{4}whareas I the aforesaid Israel Brush have sold Bound Convaid & Delivered unto him the said Tredwell Brush one cairtain Negor Boy Named Jack Coper for to have and to hold to him the said Tredwell Brush or his heirs and assigns for ever
{5}that said Negor Boy Caled Jack Coper with all his wearing apperril
{6}whereas I the said Israel Brush Doth warrant and Defend the afore said Boy from all other Lawfull Clames Titles or incombrences whatsoever unto him the said Tredwell Brush his heirs or assigns for ever and I the said Israel Brush for my self and my heirs Executors and administrators and every of them I Do Bind by vertew of these Presents for to warrent and Defend the same unto him the said Tredwell Brush his heirs and assigns forever
{7}and in Testomony of these Presents I have here unto Enterchangably afixed my seal and set My Hand This Seventeenth Day of November N:S: anno Dominy One Thousand Seven hundred and fifty Two Signed Sealed and Delivered Israel Brush (seal) in the Presents of us Jacob Brush Ananias Carll
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{8}Know all men by these Presents That We Samuel Brush & Israel Wood the Executors of Tredwell Brush deceased Have sold the within mentioned Negro Boy to Isaac Brush Senior
{9}Therefore Do syne over this within Bill Salle for the same as Witness our hand Samuel Brush Israel Wood
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{10}Know all men by these Presents that I Isaac Brush Senor have sold and Convaid the within Named boy unto Nathaniel Williams and give the said Williams all my write and Power to the within Bill of sail
{11}as Witness my hand Huntington May 14 1757 Isaac Brush In Presents of Gilbert Potter
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{12}Know all men by these presents that I Nathanael Williams have sold and Convaid the within Named Boy unto Henry Lloyd Esq. and give the said Lloyd Esq. all my Rite and Power to the within Bill of Sail
{13}and Witnis my hand Huntington July the 1st 1757 Nathl Williams Jn Silas Sammis John Morgain
Henry Lloyd II, letter to Henry Lloyd, 12 Jan. 1759
I forgot to mention I had the offer of a Strong healthy negro Fellow about 25 years old brought up in a ship Carpenters Yard as a Sawer & boarers of holes & sometimes employ'd at the Smiths business said to be a diligent hard working Fellow & to be parted with for no other Fault than going out of nights. has the Character of being good natur'd
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