Even fewer biographical details are available for two girls purchased by Captain Smith in Sherbro, to the south of Freetown, in 1805. The report in the African Herald on 2 December 1809 indicated that one of the girls, named Phoebe, was aged approximately eight years and was sold for around $\$ 50$ or $\$ 60$. Smith subsequently acquired a twelve-year old girl named Bessy by swapping her for a boy of 11 years of age whom he had already purchased for $\$ 80$. No further biographical details are available for each of these girls. Fragmentary references in colonial records point to the presence of other girls in Freetown being held in coerced labour relationships.