Dutchess County}
So Enter’d and Recorded the NIneteenth Day
of May in the Year of Our Lord One thousand seven
Hundred and seventy three a Bill of Sale Executed
By John McBride of Poughkeepsie precinct in
Dutchess County and province of New York To
Jacobus Degraaf of Rombout precinct and County
and province aforesaid Bearing Date the Nineteenth
Day of May in the year One thousand and seven Hundred
and seventy three aforesaid for Conveying to the said
Jacobus Degraff For and in Consideration of the sum
of Forty five pounds Lawfull Money of the province
afforesaid a Certain Negro Boy Called Dick age’d
About ten years
John Davis Town Clerk
Set At Liberty 