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Promissory note: Squire Boone to Marsham Brashear(1783 January 27)

  • MS 2013.4
  • 1 item

Promissory note of Squire Boone, dated January 27, 1783 from Lincoln County, Virginia (now Kentucky), in which he promises to provide a “Likely Young Country Born Negro man” to Marsham Brashear or the “penal sum of Two hundred pounds Specie …” Witnessed by Abraham Chapeline and James Asturgus.