Historic Natchez Foundation

Contributor(s)

Leonard Claiborne

Download

Download Full Text (1.7 MB)

Description

Record of a debt involving the sale of an enslaved man named Pachile

Transcription

On the sixth day of October in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and ten I Thomas A. Claiborne received of a certain Christopher Adams a Bill of Sale dated the day and year aforesaid for a negro man slave named Paschile aged twenty four years or there about. Now it is considered and agreed to by me the said Thomas A. Claiborne & I hereby bind myself my heirs executory and (administratively?) to carry this my agreement into effect or cause it to be done: that if the said Christopher Adams will and truly pray or procure to be paid to save the full sum of five hundred and twenty three dollars lawfull money of the United States on or before the first day of October eighteen hundred and eleven, which said sum offered hundred and twenty three is justly due to me the said Thomas A Claiborne from the estate of the late Leonard Claiborne deceased Then and in that case the aforesaid bill of sale shall become completely null & void. otherwise to remain at its full force rabidity (?) in law. Natchez October 6th eighteen hundred and ten Test. Geo Smith Thomas A. Claiborne Charley Lynch Page 2 State of Mississippi Adams County Personally appeared be fore me the undersigned Justice of the Peace in res and forsaid County William Parker making sworn says that in the years 1810 and previous [unknown word] Dr. Thomas A Claiborne was the attending physician Leonard Claiborne dec’d and defendant further says that he has reason to believe and does believe that at the time of L Claiborne decease he was considerably in debt to said Dr. Thos A. Claiborne. William Parker Sworn to before me July 28, 1824 J Raynton JP

Approximate Creation Date

1810-10-06

Time Period

1810-1819, 1820-1829

Subjects

Slaveholders ; Slavery -- Mississippi ; Slavery -- Mississippi -- History -- Sources ; Slaveholders; Legal Documents

Keywords

slavery; enslaved persons; Mississippi; estate files; probate files; Adams County; Jeremiah Corey; Legal instrument

Disciplines

African American Studies | Cultural History | United States History

Geographic Location

Adams County (Miss.)

Object Type

Text

Physical Format

Document

Digital Format

TIFF

Physical ID

Leonard Claiborne Estate File, Box 8, Probate and Estate Files Collection, Historic Natchez Foundation, Mississippi

Digital ID

HNF_Box8_ClaiborneLeonard_10301810_d_1_u and HNF_Box8_ClaiborneLeonard_10301810_d_2_u

Source

Leonard Claiborne Estate File, Box 8, Probate and Estate Files Collection, Historic Natchez Foundation, Mississippi

Repository

Historic Natchez Foundation

Publisher

Historic Natchez Foundation

Digital Publisher

Mississippi State University Libraries

Rights

Copyright protected by Historic Natchez Foundation. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required.

Contact Information

hnf@natchez.org

Claiborne, Leonard - Record of a debt involving the sale of an enslaved man named Pachile

Share

COinS