Admission of a 1744 Pennsylvania/Deleware Will Directing Executors to Sell Her "Negro Wench & Her Child", Philadelphia, 1744. 7.5 x 11/5

Very Good. Four leaves, the first two held together by the embossed seal at top lerft. The will of Susanna Rawson (or Rosen) in the counties of New Castle Kent and Sussex on Delaware (then part of Pennsylvania), written January 19th and approved March 8, 1744. After naming an assortment of detailed bequests, including to cousin Elizabeth "part of my wearing apparrell viz one double callicoe gown one black Grazett gown a velvet hood, four aprons, one cambric handkerchief & my gold ring the motto whereof is, 'when this you see remember me,' cloak"; my cousin Mary "two shifts, two aprons and one worsted damask gown: etc, etc., she states"...and as for (truncated) & concerning all the rest & residue of the goods, chattells effects & estate which belong unto me or which I have powers to dispose of (other than my Negroe Wench & her Child which I desire my Exects. To Sell), I do devise & bequeath unto my said daughter..." Rawson offers no explanation for direnting that her exectuors sell the the slave and her enslaved daughter. (Inventory #: 95355)