ABSTRACT
On 15 August 1768 — a hot and oppressive day typical of late summer in Philadelphia — the two Quakers met by prior agreement at the small home on Second and Chestnut Streets. They were there at the request of Friend Anthony Benezet to inventory the estate of a free Black woman, Ann Elizabeth Fortune. Benezet was her executor and he had asked Thomas Hallowell and Joseph Marriott for their assistance. He could not proceed until he had a list of the dead woman's possessions and some indication of what they were worth.
