Deed of manumission signed Taylor Blow of St. Louis County, Missouri, freeing a 30-year-old Negro slave woman named Nicene Clark, wife of Henry Clark. Witnesses, Henry W. Williams and J.R. Barret. Taylor Blow had acquired the slave from the estate of Milton Duty. Includes acknowledgment of the deed by Taylor Blow, recorded in the St. Louis Circuit Court by William J. Hammond, clerk, April 28, 1854. [accession number 70-0033], 1854 Mar 31

Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4

Identifier: D01370

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Deed of manumission signed Taylor Blow of St. Louis County, Missouri, March 31, 1854

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The Slaves and Slavery Collection is an artificial, or subject-based, collection comprising a variety of documents that have been placed in this collection over the years due to their common subject matter. Approximately half of the documents in the collection are receipts for sales of slaves, some of which were recorded in various courts. The collection also includes deeds of emancipation; personal correspondence; and broadsides offering rewards for the capture of runaway slaves.