TO BE SOLD
A Parcel of likely Negroes, imported from Africa, cheap for cash or short credit; Enquire of John Avery, at his House next Door to the White-Horse, or at a Store adjoining to said Avery’s Distill-House, at the South End, near South Market; Also, if any Persons have any Negro Men, strong and hearty, tho’ not of the best moral character, which are proper Subjects for Transportation, may have an Exchange for small Negroes.
—From an advertisement in both the Boston Evening Post and the Boston Gazette and Country Journal for July 29, 1761, and several weeks thereafter