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Negro slaves bill of sale
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Caroline Brady bill of sale of slaves to Henry A. Ellison
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This is a bill of sale for three slaves to Henry A. Ellison by Caroline Brady. It was witnessed by P. M. Bryan. It is undated and the location is unknown.
mssHM 82545
William Davenport & Co. account book relating to ship voyages, 1777-1784
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An account book of William Davenport & Co. relating to voyages made by the ships Ann, Liverpool, Hero, Swift, and Hector, trading between Liverpool, Old Calabar, Sierra Leone, Dominica, Antigua, and Kingston, Jamaica. A huge variety of different articles shipped out on these voyages are recorded, among them clothing, fabrics, beads, foodstuffs, tools, cutlery, wine, guns and gunpowder. These items presumably were intended for sale both in Africa and the West Indies. Also listed are various sales of slaves in Jamaica, Dominica, and throughout the West Indies. The volume is written in two directions with the text beginning at one cover then turned over and beginning again (tête-bêche style) and contains entries written in several hands; with original paper labels titled in manuscript pasted to the center of each cover. Pages 1-11, 24-50, 52-77 record accounts for the Hector, Liverpool, Hero and Swift (with pages 12-23 sometime excised and p. 51 omitted); then reversed and beginning at the other end of the volume, the remaining 93 pages record accounts for the Ann and cutter Bee, with 10 blank pages between the two sections.
mssHM 82854
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Bill of sale for enslaved woman Laura and her child
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Bill of sale from Barbour County, Alabama, for enslaved woman Laura, about 18 years old, and her unnamed child, about 18 months old, purchased by Zachariah Roquemore (1809-1868) from J.C. Morgan, William D. Cureton, and J.C. Wellborn.
mssHM 84004
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Arrest warrants and records of interrogation of slaves accused of arson
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On February 23, 1832, a group of slaves belonging to Moses Dickey Kilpatrick (1790-1855), Daniel Webb, Samuel Lecky, and other slave owners of Rowan County were discovered to planning coordinated arson attacks. According to the testimony, Jack, "a negro slave the property of Daniel Webb," was "talking about the patrollers he saith they had been riding and that any man would raise his hand before he would suffer death and that would have to be a stop put to them (the patrollers), and that any terms that Daniel or any of them would let him know he would go and burn big Samuel Leckey's barn." He also was reported as saying that "he wanted to burn Lecky's barn because Lecky had struck Jack's wife at home." Another slave, Daniel persuaded other slaves "to burn Dicky Kilpatrick's barn, and to carry coals in a horn" and "Abe a negro belonging to Margaret Irwin was to burn James Kerrs barn." On March 3, 1832, the Rowan County court issued arrest warrants for the slaves involved. (One of the judges, Abel Graham (1787-1844), was brother-in-law of Moses D. Kilpatrick.) The group includes the warrants and the records of interrogations of accused slaves Jack, Daniel, Newton, Alfred and Will.
mssHM 83163-83166
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An Inventory of the goods & chattels of John Williams Sen. Deceased, Halifax County (Va.)
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The inventory of the estate consists of 102 entries for livestock, farm equipment, spinning and weaving implements, dishes, furniture and kitchen utensils. Included are the names of 34 Negro slaves. One of the entries is for a "parcel of cotton the negroes to be cloathed out of it." Corroborated by William Williams and Henry E. Coleman
mssHM 59964
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John Adams, Philadelphia, patent for sale of land to Abijah Hunt and Dudley Woodbridge :
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Patent for land sold under an act of Congress, May 18, 1796, entitled "An Act providing for the sale of lands of the United States in the Territory Northwest of the River Ohio and above the mouth of the Kentucky River." Signed by John Adams; countersigned by Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State. Recorder's note signed by Jacob Wagner on reverse.
mssHM 1792