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Number of Negroes imported from 1701 - 1726; An acco't of what Negro slaves have been imported into his Majesties Province of New York as taken from the Custom House Books between the year 1701 & this present year 1726.

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1726
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New York Public Library
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Revolutionary War [Request for compensation to be paid to Nathaniel Seely for his slave, Amos Seely, who was killed in the Revolutionary War, 1783. Top reads "pay-table office, July 30th, 1783..."]

By His Excellency Richard Earl of Bellomont Captain General and Governour in Chief of His Majesties Province of New York ... A proclamation [Forbidding correspondence with the expedition from Scotland to Callidonia in America (Darien settlement)

Begins "I certify that negro named Jenny is at liberty to hire herself for an honest livelihood..."

Province of the Massachusetts-Bay. By the honorable, the Lieutenant council & assembly: convened at Boston, upon Wednesday the 27th of May 1696, in the eighth year of His Majesties reign. for better encouragement to prosecute the French and Indi

"The first book printed in New York," 1693-94. The laws & acts of the General Assembly for their Majesties Province of New York, as they were enacted in divers sessions, the first of which began April, the 9th Annoq; Domini, 1691. At New York, P

By His Excellency Benjamin Fletcher, Captain General and Governor in Chief of their Majesties Province of New-York, Province of Pennsylvania, County of New-Castle, and the Territories and tracts of land depending theron in America, and vice-admi

To His Excellency Richard Earl of Bellomont Capt. General and Governour inn chief of the Province of New-York, Massachusetts Bay and New Hampshire, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c. The humble address of the representatives of his Majesties Prov

To accompany Their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians to Mount Vernon Wednesday October the twenty-ninth nineteen hundred and nineteen. [Washington, D. C., 1919].

Catilda Downs; Barbados passport 2

To accompany Their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians to Mount Vernon Wednesday October the twenty-ninth nineteen hundred and nineteen. [Washington, D. C., 1919].

Statistics of revenue, imports, exports, etc. 1691 - 1768.

By His Excellency Richard Earl of Bellomont Captain General and Governour in Chief of His Majesties Province of New York ... A proclamation [For the arrest of pyrates and sea rovers." Given at Fort William Henry the ninth day of may, 1698 ... Be

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african americans history social conditions slavery africans slave trade blacks caribbean area statistics documents schomburg center for research in black culture manuscripts archives and rare books division miscellaneous american letters and papers year negro slaves custom house books negroes majesties province high resolution enslaved people number acco negro slaves majesties province custom house books american letters and papers colonies province of new york