REVOLUTIONARY WAR BRIGADIER GENERAL DANIEL MORGAN SELLS TWO OF HIS SLAVES

MORGAN, DANIEL (1736–1802) American pioneer, Brigadier General in the Revolutionary War; soldier, and congressman from Virginia considered one of the most gifted battlefield tacticians of the Revolutionary War; defeated Banastre Tarleton at the Battle of Cowpens in January 1781 forcing Charles Cornwallis to pull his troops out of South Carolina and move them farther north; Tarleton and Cornwallis later surrendered at the Battle of Yorktown in October 1781 putting an end to the war. Uncommon, rarely encountered and of choice content, Manuscript Document Signed “Dan’l Morgan.  One page oblong octavo. “May 16, 1800”, no place.  Receipt for selling two of his slaves to George Washington’s rental agent, W[illia]m Battaile Muse.  The receipt acknowledges: “the sum of two hundred Pounds on a/c of two bonds given to me (payable on the 30th day of April last.) for the purchase of two Negro boys named Jesse and Phill, in full. Dan’l Morgan ….[Countersigned by] witness John Summerton.”

Battaile Muse (1751–1803) was an American farmer who served as George Washington’s rental agent in Frederick and Fauquier counties. His family had been very close friends to the Washington’s ever since his father George Muse (1720-1790) fought with Washington at the Battle of Fort Necessity during the French and Indian War.  Just an outstanding piece with multiple facets of interest for the history collector.

 

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