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I ran across this while perusing the papers of Orange County:

 

"We promise to pay to William Graves Senr . . . nine hundred Dollars
Currant [sic] money of Virginia, it being for the hire of nine negroes
for the year 1851 at $100 each to work on the plank road from
Chancellorsville to Orange Court house . . . said negroes not to be
worked with Irishmen nor foreigners . . ."

 

The interpretations are myriad and interesting.  Enjoy.

 

The citation: Graves's admr. V. Ellis etc., Orange County, (VA), Circuit
Court Judgments, Oct 1853.

 

Pardon the x-post.

 

Jim Watkinson

 

James D. Watkinson, Ph.D.

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