I represent Sinnah. I was a child of color enslaved by Richard Ellis, a plantation owner on the Mississippi who claimed, in his 1776 petition for a large grant of land to have had a wife, seven children, and 81 enslaved people in his household. In an instrument dated September 21, 1778, he used me as collateral on a short-term loan from John McGillivray.
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