Enslavement in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania

Public Auctions of Enslaved People in Dauphin County

To be sold by public vendue,
ON Tuesday the 22d inst. at the late dwelling-house of John Hamilton, deceased, in Harrisburgh,
The time of a young, healthy, active negro man, horses, cows, sheep, oxen and various farming utensils, together with broad and narrow cloths, checks, corduroys, velvets, gauzes, cambricks, lawns, a general assortment of buttons, knives, scissors, China, queen's ware, and other dry goods; wheat in the sheaves; also, household and kitchen furniture; likewise, a great variety of other articles, too tedious to enumerate. The sale to begin at 10 o'clock on said day, where attendance and credit will be given by
MARGARET HAMILTON, JOHN KEAN, MOSES GILMORE, } Administrators.
Harrisburgh, October 14, 1793. (Oracle of Dauphin and Harrisburgh Advertiser, 14 October 1793)