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1849 & 1856 Two American Slave Documents

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1849 & 1856 Two American Slave Documents

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Title: 1849 & 1856 Two American Slave Documents

Author: Estates of Robert Pryor of Georgia and Erasmus Culpepper, Jr., of Wilcox County, Alabama

Date/Period: 1849/1856

Publisher: ---

Edition: ---

Additional Information: 849 & 1859. --TWO HANDWRITTEN SLAVE DOCUMENTS-- Legal distributions of enslaved men, women & children from two separate slaveholder estates. Both documents in excellent condition.

HANDWRITTEN SLAVE DOCUMENT-- dated Jan. 30, 1849, 8" X 12.5"-- from the estate of ROBERT PRYOR, an early settler in Georgia's Sumter County. This document provided to Robert Pryor's son, two daughters and brother Spencer an equal distribution of Pryor's estate: 17 'first-name only' Negro slaves + their offspring, a few mules, and cash distribution realized from the sale of Pryor's land.

Allotted to (brother) Spencer Pryor...

Slade - a man
Frank- a boy
Margret - a woman
? - a girl
one mare mule
one horse mule
1/4 value of the land $769.37

Allotted to (son) Stephen S. Pryor (a minor)...

Charles- a man
George- a boy
Eliza & child
Milley- a woman
two horse mules
1/4 value of the land $769.37

Allotted to (daughter) Mary A. Pryor (a minor)...

Wash- a man
Adam- a boy
Visa- a woman
Harriet- a girl
Berry- a boy
one mare mule
one horse mule
1/4 value of the land $769.37

Allotted to (daughter) Sarah F. Pryor (a minor)...

Pepa- a man
Allen- a boy
S [?}- and child
Ellen- a girl
one mare mule
one horse mule
1/4 value of the land $769.37

HANDWRITTEN SLAVE DEED-- dated March 10, 1858, 5.5" x 8"-- from the estate of ERASMUS CULPEPPER JR. Erasmus Culpepper, Jr. migrated to Lower Peachtree, Wilcox Co., Alabama from Nash County, N. Carolina. Culpepper, Jr. died in 1855 and his estate went into probate. The deed allocated 5 slaves to his daughter, Mrs. Harriette Pate. "...Rec’d of Erasmus Culpepper Jr.---deed the following named Negroes---to Mrs. Harriett Pate wife of J. F. Pate,---belonging to said Estate to wit---valued at Four Thousand five Hundred Dollars".

Chaney
Daniel
Mose
Jerry
Henry. [US slavery African-American Alabama, Georgia, Civil War manuscript]

Reserve: $700.00

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