Box 1
Contains 81 Results:
Negative photostat of deed of emancipation executed by Pierre Francois Devolsay and his wife, Elizabet Coulon Devillier, at St. Louis of the Illinois, freeing a 10-year-old girl named Francoise, whom they have raised as their own child from her earliest years. Francoise will continue to live with them until she is provided for by marriage. (in French, includes translation), 1772 June 22
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.
Agreement regarding the sale of a slave named Esther from Patrick Henry to Peter Perkins in North Carolina. (Notation on the back of the document reads, A Manuscript of Patrick Henry presented to me by the Rev. Edward Fontaine, [signed] Robt.[?] Dalton)., 1784 May 3
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.
Typescript copy of the sale of a slave. (Original document was signed by Francisco Cruzat, and was transcribed on April 21, 1914, and returned to Mrs. J.L. McCormick). (in Spanish, includes translation), 1786
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.
Negative photostat of handbill of Ignatius Davis, dated Frederick-Town, Maryland, offering a ten-dollar reward for the return of his mulatto slave named Arch., 1793 June 24
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.
Deposition signed Jean McElduff, a resident of Kaskaskia, before J. Edgar, a justice of the peace in St. Clair County, Territory of the United States Northwest of the Ohio River, stating that a Negro named Ben was the property of Jean Boyce or Jonathan Ousley. Document includes declaration signed Wm. Henry of Woodford County, July 23, 1790, stating that he sold a 17-year-old Negro named Ben to Jean Boyce; and declaration signed Jonathan Ousley and J. Edgar, June 7, 1794, stating that Ousley renounces his rights to Ben, whom he bought from Jean Boyce, but had not paid the agreed price by the agreed date, and thus he returned to Boyce his rights to Ben (in French, includes translation). Filed with this document are some accounts in German, written on the back of a printed receipt of the Illinois Central Railroad Line dated 186-., 1794 June 28
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.
Receipt for the sale of a one-year-old female slave named Tabb from Isaac Holman of Rowan County, North Carolina, to Jacob Holman, also of Rowan County (Notation on the back of the document certifies that the bill of sale was registered, October 19, 1796). [gift of Mrs. J.T. Doneghy], 1796 Feb 25
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.
Receipt for the sale of two slaves named Sam and Rachel from Uriah Taylor to George Smith of Kentucky. (Notation on the back of the document states that the document was recorded in St. Louis County, Missouri Territory). [gift of Mrs. A.P. Fletcher], 1803 Feb 7
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.
Deed of emancipation signed George Keys of St. Louis County, Missouri, freeing his slave named Jacob, whom Keys had purchased from Charles R. Hall, trustee of the children of Mary R. Tunstall, deceased. Witnesses, R. Dowling and R.M. Field. Recorded in the St. Louis Circuit Court by M.S. Cerre, clerk, February 28, 1851. [gift of Mrs. A.P. Fletcher], 1851 Feb 26
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.
Affidavit of Jesse L. Page recorded by W.W. Kitzmiller, justice of the peace for St. Louis County, Missouri, states that he arrested a colored man named Henry Williams, who is believed to be a runaway slave. Bottom of document contains note signed W.W. Kitzmiller to the keeper of the common jail of St. Louis County directing him to detain the slave. [gift of Mrs. A.P. Fletcher], 1851 Sept 4
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.
Bill of sale of slave named George from Teunis G. VanDevour to Jonathan Rhea. (Accompanying typescript note states that Jonathan Rhea was a major in the American Revolution and quartermaster general of New Jersey during the War of 1812). [gift of John H. Gundlach, St. Louis], 1805 Oct 16
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.