Box 1
Contains 81 Results:
Letter signed Samuel Dobbin, Madison, [Indiana], to Capt. [Walter W.] Sherman, [Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]. Expresses apprehension about the arrangement he made regarding the shipping of a slave woman to Ste. Genevieve. [accession number 76-0002], 1841 Jan 13
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 $1,200 for the sale of “a Negro man named Alfred, one Negro woman & two children named Winney & Margaret and Montgomery, one Negro boy named Randolph one yellow girl named Sarah and one named Martha” from Felix Coonce to Saml. Gaty. [gift of W.P. Coonce], 1841 Dec 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.
Letter signed K[enneth]. Mackenzie, St. Louis, to Gabriel S. Chouteau. “Being informed that the Negro woman and children bid off by me at the Court House on Monday last claim that they are free, and that a suit has been instituted for the purpose of obtaining their freedom, I have to inform you that I decline to pay for, or receive them, because at the time of sale I understood that there was no dispute regarding the title to them as slaves.”, 1843 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.
License of the St. Louis County Court granted to Jane Brackenridge, a free Negro, allowing her to reside in the state of Missouri., 1844 Mar 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.
Broadside advertising a $200 reward offered by Wm. Russell for the capture of five runaway slaves, namely, 40-year-old Washington Reed, known by the name of Washington; 30-year-old Mary, his wife; 12-year-old Fielding, their oldest child; 6-year-old Matilda, their second child; and 4-year-old Malcolm, their youngest child. These slaves have been in possession of Thomas Allen for the last few years., 1847 Oct 1
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.
Notarized receipt for $400 for the sale of a 12-year-old Negro boy named George from James Hurley [or Huling] of Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, to William D. Dougherty of New Orleans. Witnesses, William G. Latham and Guy Duplantis. Signed by Joseph Roberts Beard, notary public, New Orleans, November 29, 1848. [gift of David C. Loker], 1848 Nov 27
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.
Document signed R.W. Johnson, lieutenant, U.S. Army. States in full, “Simon was born on the 26th day of November 1819 and consequently will be 33 years old next November.”, 1852 Apr 30
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.
Document signed Elizabeth Pease (by Jno. Thomas, agent), states in full, "The boy Simon is authorized to hire himself on any good boat running between this port & St. Louis or in the St. Louis & Missouri river trade. For the purpose of procuring a berth when not employed on any boat he is authorized to pass & [word unclear] in St. Louis. In case he requires any reffrence for any purpose he is authorized to refer to Capt. Sellers of St. Louis." Document dated New Orleans., 1856 Apr 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.
Document signed Jno. Thomas, attorney for Elizabeth Pease, 23 Commercial Place, states in full, “This is to authorize the boy Simon to take charge of the boy Dick & Simon is authorized to take him with him on any boat he may engage his own services on either running in the St. Louis & New Orleans trade or in the St. Louis & the Missouri River trade. Should Dick be able to get wages at any time for services any party may pay same over to the boy Simon he being authorized to receive them.” Document dated New Orleans. Notation of L.T. Woods, clerk, dated St. Louis, June 3, 1856, reads, “Original filed on board steamer St. Nicholas.”, 1856 Apr 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.
Typescript letter signed Harry G. Smith, Wetaskiwin, Alberta, to Charles van Ravenswaay, director of the Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis. Regarding donation of documents; states that “Simon, mentioned in these papers was owned by a Mrs. Elizabeth Pease of England. All his wages and those of the boy Dick, were paid to her attorney Jn. Thomas Atty of 23 Commercial Place New Orleans. Just previous to the beginning of the Civil War Simon took ‘french leave’ and eventually arrived in Chicago Ill, becoming a tenent on Father’s small acorage new Chicago.”, 1950 June 6
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.