Translation No. 068
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Date: 1501, October 16. Seville, Spain
Theme: A Black man named Pedro is hired in Seville as a servant to work for two years in La Española digging for gold or whatever else he is assigned to do by his employer, the son of a justice-police official of Seville. Pedro was to work in exchange for a salary and lodging, meals and beverage during the period of the contract
Source: Archivo Histórico Provincial de Sevilla. Fondo Protocolos Notariales. 9101P. Libro único. Folio 604r°v° (Oficio 15, escribano público: González de Vallecillo, Bernal)
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here in Seville [ ] next Easter day of next year of the Lord fifteen and two under penalty of the double [etçetera?] [ ] [ ] / [notary?] of Seville [Rubric] p [ ]s [Rubric] Pedro, of Black color, who was a servant to / |
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neither for more nor less, nor for as much it may honor, give, or promise to him, nor for saying, or denying that he wants to take up denizenship in the said island, nor for any privilege, nor law nor ordinance they have in the island, nor for any other reason, whatever it may be, the said Juan de Saravia may not abandon it, [under penalty of the parties of?] ten thousand maravedís. [ ] And the said Juan de Saravia being present to everything that has been said, acknowledge that [ ] [by himself?] the said Another contract such as the aforementioned was done issued by Gonzalo servant of Juan / |