| Name | Age | Color or Race | Sex | Role in document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amelia T Dorsett | grantor | |||
| David Stewart | grantee | |||
| Polly | 9 | Black ("negro") | Female | enslaved |
Bill of sale was recorded on 29 April 1818. Amelia T. Dorsett of Washington City in the District of Columbia sells to David Stewart of the same place, for $ 150, a Negro girl age about 9 named Polly; she is sold as a slave forever. David Stewart agrees to never sell or dispose of Polly to any one who would take her outside of the District of Columbia; that she "should never be sold to a foreign Negro Buyer or trader in Negroes for the purpose of taking her out of the District." Signed on 18 April 1818 by Amelia T. Dorsett. In the left margin of the handwritten Liber the following is written: "Ex[amined] and Delivered to grantee [David Stewart] June 19, 1821"
