After William Wilson died, appraisers assigned a value of $600 to Bill, a male slave from Wilson's estate. However, according to Lancelot Wilson, the estate's administrator, Bill was "not healthy and sound" at the time of the appraisal, "nor he has not been since the said appraisement he having the disease of the shins." He asks the court to grant him an order to sell Bill at private sale "for the most money I can get for the said Boy."
Or you may view all people.
Repository: Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, Maryland
