{"deed_identifier":"DC.WAS.WB3.56.1","deed_county":"Washington DC.","deed_date":"June 21, 1821","deed_type":"Bill of sale","book":"Book WB3, Page 56.","people":[{"occupation_enslaved":"","name":"Samuel Knox","role":"grantor","color_race":"","sex":"","age":"","person_skills":"","date_added":"","group_sale":"","consideration":"","person_url":"https://dlas.uncg.edu/deeds/person/71280","birthdate":"","deathdate":"","family_roles":[],"diseases":""},{"occupation_enslaved":"","name":"Stephen B Balch","role":"grantee","color_race":"","sex":"","age":"","person_skills":"","date_added":"","group_sale":"","consideration":"","person_url":"https://dlas.uncg.edu/deeds/person/71279","birthdate":"","deathdate":"","family_roles":[],"diseases":""},{"occupation_enslaved":"","name":"George","role":"enslaved","color_race":"Black (\"negro\")","sex":"Male","age":"9","person_skills":"","date_added":"","group_sale":"","consideration":"","person_url":"https://dlas.uncg.edu/deeds/person/71276","birthdate":"","deathdate":"","family_roles":[],"diseases":""},{"occupation_enslaved":"","name":"Harry","role":"enslaved","color_race":"Black (\"negro\")","sex":"Male","age":"4","person_skills":"","date_added":"","group_sale":"","consideration":"","person_url":"https://dlas.uncg.edu/deeds/person/71277","birthdate":"","deathdate":"","family_roles":[],"diseases":""},{"occupation_enslaved":"","name":"Charity","role":"enslaved","color_race":"Black (\"negro\")","sex":"Female","age":"24","person_skills":"","date_added":"","group_sale":"","consideration":"","person_url":"https://dlas.uncg.edu/deeds/person/71278","birthdate":"","deathdate":"","family_roles":[],"diseases":""}],"summaries":[],"abstracts":["Bill of sale was recorded on 21 June 182 l. District of\nColumbia: \"At the request of Samuel Knox the following bill of sale was record on 17\nSeptember 1798. Stephen Bloomer Balch of George Town, Montgomery Co. [Maryland, now in\nthe District of Columbia] for 112 pounds, 10 shillings current money, sells to Samuel Knox of\nFrederick Co.\" [Maryland] the following Negroes: a Negro boy named George age about 9, a\nNegro boy named Harry age about 4, and a Negro woman named Charity age about 24, until the\nboys each reach the age of 30 and not longer. At age 30 George and Harry \"will be free for the\nremainder of their lives.\" Samuel Knox will also have Charity for \"a term of ten years from the\ndate of this [document] and no longer,\" provided she behaves and demeans herself as a good\nservant in the opinion of Samuel Knox. Signed on 14 September 1789 by Stephen B. Balch."],"compiler_notes":[]}