unknown, Lucy [14]
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Title
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unknown, Lucy [14]
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Alias
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"Little Lucy"
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Gender
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Female
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Biography
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Lucy was included in the 1829 inventory of the estate of Benjamin G. Willis, valued at $300, she was one of two enslaved women named Lucy. She was later sold along with William for $650.
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Lucy, Dick and William were sold sometime between the 1829 estate appraisal and the 1832 widow's dower for their "notorious ill character as thieves, having rendered themselves troublesome at home as well as through the neighborhood.
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Bibliographic citation(s)
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Boone County Will Book B, page 463