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Subject : Sale of a negrees, 1765
Date/Time : 10/2/2012 10:38:23 AM

Sale of a negrees at New Orleans, 1765

Ce jourdhui 31mo jour de Juliet 1765 je sous signé declare avoir vendre et liveré a Monsieur Bebecart une Newgreese nommée Pegué agée de vingt cing ans ou environ pour el pris et somme de dix sept cent livres en letres de change a moy en main payees et don’t je tiens quite mondit Sieur a la Nouvelle Orleans jour et an que dessus

~ Joseph Chalon

[translation]
This, the 31st day of July 1765, I the undersigned declare that I have sold and delivered to Mr. Bebecart a negrees named Peggy, age 25 years or about that, for the sum of seventeen hundred livres [between $310 and $340} in letters of exchange in hand paid and for liability for which the above mentioned Sieur is released at New Orleans day and year aforesaid.

~ Joseph Chalon

Subject : Advertisement for stolen boy
Date/Time : 10/1/2012 11:13:12 AM

Clarksville, Indiana April 26 1783

Was taken from this place about the 18th of February Last a boy names John Scroggan about Eight years and one half of age of fair Complexion pitted with the Small-pox he had Short fair hair Suposed to be taken by the Kickabouse or Windots if said boy be found a Reasonable reward Shall be paid by me

Tohmas Scroggan.

Subject : Ojibway prayer
Date/Time : 9/24/2012 10:05:08 AM

Grandfather,
Look at our brokenness,
We know that in all creation
Only the human family
Has strayed from the sacred way.
We know that we are the ones
Who divided
And we are the ones
Who must come back together
To walk in the sacred way
Grandfather,
Sacred One,
Teach us love, compassion, honor
That we may heal the earth
And heal each other.

Subject : The Old Chisholm Trail
Date/Time : 9/17/2012 7:59:24 AM

Well come along boys and listen to my tale,
I'll tell you my troubles on the old Chisholm Trail.

On a ten dollar horse and a forty dollar saddle,
I started out to punchin' then longhorn cattle.

I started up the trail October twenty-third,
I started up the trail with the 2U herd.

I'm up in the morning before daylight,
And before I sleep the moon shines bright.

It's bacon and beans most every day,
We'll soon be a-eatin' prairie hay.

With my seat in the saddle and my hand on the horn,
I'm the best damned cowboy that ever was born.

It's cloudy in the west and a-lookin' like rain,
And my damned old slicker's in the wagon again.

Subject : Lumbee Proverb
Date/Time : 9/10/2012 9:09:27 AM

Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past, Wisdom is of the future.

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