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Title: "Slavery material", Folder 3, 1798
Identifier(s): text:342606
Description: Deposition of court case involving slave ownership rights (contested will).
Subject: Yeates, Jasper, 1745-1817; Slavery -- Pennsylvania
Date: 1798

Title: "Slavery material", Folder 4, 1810-1826
Identifier(s): text:342607
Description: Letters from John Yeates legally announcing the birth of children born to his slaves. Includes birth dates and names of slaves owned by Yeates.
Subject: Yeates, Jasper, 1745-1817; Slavery -- Pennsylvania
Date: 1810-1826

Title: "Slavery material", Folder 1, 1773-1787
Identifier(s): text:342604
Description: Letters between Jasper Yeates and Joseph Shippen regarding Shippen's acquisition of slaves for Yeates; depositions of court cases regarding fugitive slaves; depositions of court cases regarding slave ownership rights (contested wills).
Subject: Yeates, Jasper, 1745-1817; Shippen, Joseph, 1732-1810; Slavery -- Pennsylvania
Date: 1773-1787

Title: Dorsey, Leonard receipt; No. 1726 Leonard Dorsey, receipt, 1783 June 17
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:665
Description: Account with Jasper Yeates for sugar and coffee.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Economy; Merchants--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia; Food industry and trade--United States--History; Yeates, Jasper, 1745-1817
Date: 1783-06-17; 2021

Title: Gurney, Francis to Jesse" Jasper Yeates," 1776 June 26; No. 439 Francis Gurney to Jesse" Jasper Yeates"
Identifier(s): text:347582
Description: Requests that two prisoners be released from jail, even though they deserve punishment.
Creator: Gurney, Francis, 1738-1815et al
Subject: United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Prisoners and prisons; Yeates, Jasper, 1745-1817
Date: 1776-06-26; 2022

Title: Various invoices and financial records, 1782, 1786-1787, undated
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:17032
Description: Various business correspondence relating to Edward Shippen.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; Economy; Finance, Personal--United States; Finance, Public--United States--History--To 1789; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Economic conditions; Shippen, Edward, 1729-1806; Yeates, Jasper, 1745-1817
Date: 1782-1787; 2022