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Free Negroes for Sale at Auctions.

In pursuance of an order of the Hustings Court of the city of Richmond, made at the December term of said Court, I will sell on Monday, the 11th day of January, 1863, (that being Court day,) in front of the City Hall, to the highest bidder, for cash, the following Free Negroes, convicted of grand larceny, and ordered to be sold into absolute slavery, viz: Sarah Edmondson, Edward Patterson, and Nathan Drayton.

Sale at 10½ o'clock A. M.

Thos. U. Dudley,
Sergeant of City of Richmond. ja 8--tds

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