"A Negro an at £40" is listed on page 1 of Eleazer Clark's 1754 estate inventory.
Bibliography:
Maine Probate Abstracts Vol I 1687-1775 - John Eldridge Frost (1991)
York County Registry of Probate
Eleazer Clark
Relationship to POC: enslaver
Status (enslaved, free or both): free
Town: Wells
Known dates: 1754
Eleazer Clark 1755 probate abstract
includes a Negro man at L40
Eleazer Clark estate inventory
cover page
Eleazer Clark estate inventory
page 1 of 3
Eleazer Clark estate inventory
page 2 of 3
Eleazer Clark estate inventory
page 3 of 3
Eleazor Clark died intestate
Statement of the Probate Court