Transcription below the photo is by the Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University, New Haven CT.
Used here with the permission of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University. Edwards, years later, cut the receipt into three strips and used the back for notes for a sermon.
Historic Northampton generously shared a copy of the topmost part of the bill of sale for the “Negro Girle named Venus” dated June 7,1731. As mentioned in the latest post Slavery in Northampton, the town’s minister Jonathan Edwards went to Newport, Rhode Island and purchased an enslaved young girl.
