She is a pretty good mantua maker; can cut out and make vests and pantaloons and roundabouts and joseys for little boys in a first rate manner.

Her daughters' ages are eleven and thirteen years, brought up exclusively as house servants.

The eldest can sew neatly, both can knit stockings; and all are accustomed to all kinds of house work.

They would not be sold to speculators or traders for any price whatever." The price for the three was fixed at $1800, but a memorandum stated that a purchaser taking the daughters at $1000 might have the mother on a month's trial.

The girls were duly bought by Dr.Edward Maynard, who we may hope took the mother also at the end of the stipulated month.[20] In the cities a few slaves were sold by lottery.