Box 1
Contains 81 Results:
Statement of property advanced to Robert and Sally Warren Dunlap by F. Nance on June 6, 1832, December 2, 1834, and August 13, 1835. Property includes several slaves. [accession number 71-0008], 1836 Feb 18
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.
Papers relating to the estate of Benjamin Jones (Wm. C. Lane and Franklin Raborg, administrators). (1) Receipt of Mrs. Jones to Anne Fine, signed Anne Fine, St. Louis County, May 18, 1837, for $5 for delivering a black woman. (2) Report of slaves belonging to the estate of Benjamin Jones, hired out until Christmas next at public auction at the late residence of the deceased, by order of the administrators of the estate on June 20, 1837. Includes names of slaves hired out, to whom hired, and amount of wages until Christmas. Document sworn and subscribed to by Wm. Carr Lane and Franklin Raborg, August 7, 1837. (3) Report of the slaves belonging to the estate of Benjamin Jones, hired out until January 1 next at public auction at the courthouse door in the city of St. Louis by order of the administrators of the estate on January 1, 1838. Includes names of slaves hired out, to whom hired, and amount of wages until January. (4) Receipt signed Rachel Wetherspoon, St. Louis, April 16, 1838, for $10 for delivering Negro named Kitty of child and attendance. (5) Receipt signed G.W. Call, St. Louis, February 1, 1839, for medical attendance he provided. (6) Receipt signed A. Hoffman, St. Louis, February 16, 1839, for digging grave for Rachel’s child, belonging to the estate of Benjamin Jones. (7) Receipt signed Margaret Brown, St. Louis, February 20, 1839, “for services rendered Rachel in her confinement, a slave belonging to said estate.” (8) Printed blank summons to testify at a trial in the city of St. Louis, dated 183-. Notation on verso reads, in part, “. . . on account of Ramsay C. Jones, a minor.”, 1837-1839
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 $800 for the sale of a 17-year-old Negro named Henry from John B. Lesperance of St. Louis, Missouri, to G.W. Berkley of St. Louis, Missouri. Witness, Thos. Talbott. [gift of Captain Charles M. Berkley, November 1931], 1838 May 21
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 $440 for the sale of a Negro slave named Joe from DuBouffay Fremon, administrator of the estate of Antoine DuBreuil, to George W. Berkley. By order of the probate court of St. Louis County, DuBouffay Fremon was required to sell at auction the following slaves of the estate of Antoine DuBreuil: Philip, Joe, Celeste and her infant Marie, Louise and her infant Ignace, Julie and Frank. George W. Berkley was the highest bidder for the slave Joe. [gift of Captain Charles M. Berkley, November 1931], 1844 Apr 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.
Letter signed Matthew P. Lee, Arcola, Loudon [Loudoun] County, Virginia, to G.W. Berkley, St. Louis, Missouri. Writes regarding the hire of Silas. “. . . . A man by the name of Monroe has agreed to give him one hundred and eighty dollars--$110 to you and the balance to Silas and Silas agrees to clothe himself and to make good all loss time that is to mak[?] your $110 certain with good security and the loss time and clothing out of Silas part. . . .” [gift of Captain Charles M. Berkley, November 1931], 1844 Oct 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.
Receipt for $300 for the sale of a Negro boy named George from James H. Allison and Robert Allison to George W. Berkley. [gift of Captain Charles M. Berkley, November 1931], 1845 May 9
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 of $700 for the sale of a 17-year-old Negro girl named Sharlott from B.M. Lynch to Geo. W. Berkley. [gift of Captain Charles M. Berkley, November 1931], 1852 Oct 8
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.
Facsimile reproduction of letter signed J.Q. Adams, Quincy, to Edmund Quincy, Boston. Adams declines Quincy’s invitation to the Massachusetts State Anti-Slavery Society’s celebration of the anniversary of the abolishment of slavery in the colonial possessions of Great Britain., 1838 July 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 $1,000 for the sale of a 45-year-old Negro woman named Vilot (alias Violett) and all of her children from John Sefton of St. Louis County, Missouri, to William W. Greene and Augustus R. Chouteau of St. Louis County, Missouri. This "being the same family of negroes for which four suits are now depending in the circuit court of St. Louis County in the name of Henry Dodge administrator of Israel Dodge deceased, the first against Margaret S. McNair, the second against Charles DeWard, the third against Thomas Hensley and the fourth against Joseph S. Buchannon. [accession number 70-0033], 1839 Apr 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.
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
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.