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Search Collections - Ontario Heritage Trust 8932 false 8932 https://OHT.MINISISINC.COM/SCRIPTS/MWIMAIN.DLL/132336027/2/1/8932?RECORD&DATABASE=COLLECTIONS_OPAC 983.18.9 Bill of Sale Bill of sale 8932 https://OHT.MINISISINC.COM/SCRIPTS/MWIMAIN.DLL/132336027/2/1/8932/WEB_UNION_DET_REP?RECORD&DATABASE=SELECTION_LIST Homewood A paper bill of sale signed by Daniel Jones concerning the sale of an eight-year-old enslaved Black girl named Elizabeth to Dr. Solomon Jones. The document is dated 1788 and is handwritten in ink on paper. The paper was originally folded eight times along its length. Textual information on the bill of sale reads as follows:/Know _____ ____ by these presents that I Daniel Jones of ____________ settlement district of Montreal and province of Quebec/ For and in consideration of the sum of twenty five pound ___________ to _ in hand paid by Solomon Jones of same settlement/ District and Province aforesaid and I do hereby acknowledge myself truly satisfied contented and paid and by these presents do sell/ Bargain convey and deliver unto the aforesaid Solomon Jones a Negro Girl named Elizabeth about eight years old to have and to hold/ the said Negro girl for ever to only proper _____ and ______ of him the said Solomon Jones his Heirs Executors Administrators and / Asigns for ever and I Daniel Jones for myself _____administrators and asigns do and ____ for ever warrant and defend the sale by ____presents in witness whereof I have herewith ______ ___my name this 30th day of August/ at Augustus Anne Domino 1788/ Daniel Jones/in presence pf./Richard Jones. Lower left written in same ink, on the vertical:/1351/ Ink Handwritten Paper Jones, Daniel P496 This receipt documenting the purchase of Elizabeth by Dr. Solomon Jones is the only known record of her life, and is an important record of Black enslavement in Canada. Although Jones family tradition holds that Elizabeth was buried in the family plot at the Blue Church in Prescott, her name is not on the grave stone. At the time he purchased Elizabeth, Solomon Jones and his family were living in a log cabin on the Homewood property near the St. Lawrence River; they would later move into the stone house known as Homewood in 1800. Solomon Jones was a supporter of slavery, along with several of his brothers. In 1798, as a member of the Upper Canada House of Assembly, Jones voted in favour of re-opening Upper Canada's borders to slave imports. Daniel Jones, one of the founders of Brockville, occasionally travelled to New York state to purchase slaves. It is therefore possible that Elizabeth was brought to Canada from New York. For slaveholding Loyalist families like the Joneses, Black slaves were considered valuable assets whose free labour could be used to build wealth in Upper Canada. 38.5 cm 22 cm 8: Communication Artifacts Documentary Artifacts Financial Records Receipt Bill of Sale image https://OHT.MINISISINC.COM/M3IMAGE/983.18.9_Bill_of_Sale_cropped.jpg Cultural Homewood Museum 1788 https://OHT.MINISISINC.COM/SCRIPTS/MWIMAIN.DLL/132336027/2/1?ADDSELECTION&COOKIE=BOOKMARK&DBNAME=SELECTION_LIST https://oht.minisisinc.com/scripts/mwimain.dll/132336027?SHOWORDERLIST&COOKIE=BOOKMARK&NEW=Y false 0 8932