Bill of sale for Bett, an enslaved girl, aged 8, for 32 pounds,10 shillings from Lawrence Lancaster to Thomas Cook, both of Granville County, North Carolina.
Signed by witnesses: James Harris; Thos. Williams.

Lancaster, Lawrence, seller, enslaver
Bett, 1749?-enslaved child/person
Cook, Thomas, active 1757-1792, enslaver, buyer

Title devised by cataloger.
Source: Duke University Archives of American Slavery Documents
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Description of Collection from Duke University:
Legal and personal documents related to the institution of slavery in the United States from 1757-1860s
About the Digital Collection
The American Slavery Documents Collection contains an assortment of legal and personal documents related to slavery in the United States. Nearly all of the documents are singular and otherwise unrelated to the other, but as a composite, the collection brings to light the details of the lives and deaths of free and enslaved African Americans during the Antebellum and early Reconstruction Eras.

The type of materials include bills of sale, manumission papers, emancipation notes, bonds, auction notices and other assorted items. The documents represent nearly all of the states of the American south including: North Carolina, Virginia, Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi, but a few documents are from northern states like New York and New Jersey.