- Written by
- Calhoun, A., American
- Subject of
- Watson, Robert
- Unidentified Woman or Women
- Date
- April 2, 1836
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 4 11/16 x 8 3/16 in. (11.9 x 20.8 cm)
- Description
- A handwritten bill of sale for a 23-year-old woman named Rachel to Robert Watson from A. Calhoun for the sum of $625, dated April 2,1836. The bill is written in brown ink on a half sheet of off-white paper. At top left is [Georgia / Muscogee County]. The document reads in part: [Received of Robert Watson Six hundred / & Twenty Five Dollars for a Negro Woman / Rachel aged Twenty Three Years which / I warrant to be sound in mind & body and I do / hereby warrant & defend the right &title to said / Robert Watson and his heir [sic] and assigns forever]. It is signed at bottom right with handwritten seal by [A. Calhoun] and witnessed at bottom left by [E.L. Wittich]. On the verso is written [Calhoun / Bill of Sale For Rachel].
- Place made
- Muscogee County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
- Collection title
- Liljenquist Family Collection
- Classification
- Slavery and Freedom Objects
- Documents and Manuscripts
- Type
- bills of sale
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from the Liljenquist Family Collection
- Object number
- 2012.158.22
- Restrictions & Rights
- Public domain
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




