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755C HARDY HILL acknowledges debt to GEORGE W. RIDER, deceased,
in the sum of $321.42 ... to secure debt mortgages negro woman,
CLARISSA about 20... Witness: JAS. L. STOKES, W.H. GIBSON
756C JAMES L. STOKES acknowledges debt to the succession of GEORGE
W. RIDER in the sum of $1921 ... gives promissory note and mortgages
tract of land on Deer Creek, SE qtr. Sec. 9, Township 11, Range 8
East and one negro man, MOSES,about 22 and a negro woman, NLLY,
about 23. 13 February 1832
757C 15 February 1832 - MICHAEL B.
WELLS and LOUISA WELLS, authorized p.411 by her said husband who
acknowledged that for $362.50 to them paid by THOMAS B. MATTHEWS
sells undivided 1/2 of a negro woman, LUCY about 25 and her two
children, FANNY about 2, and NELLY about three months ... Witness:
JAS DESHA, G.W. LOVELACE
760C 19 April 1832-MICHAEL H.DOSSON
for $400 paid him by WILLIAM H. p.414 GIBSON sells negro woman, PUG
... Witness: R.D. BANDY, JOSEPH (x) FRANCIS, SR.
761C 2
January 1833 - MARY DAVIS, about to remove into this state and has
introduced for her own use a negro slave about 30 years old, yellow
complexion with a scar on one arm - she has further stated that she
has owned this negro for about 15 years in the state of Mississippi.
/s/ MARY (x) DAVIS
762C 9 May 1832 - RICHARD KING borrowed
$5000 from New Orleans Canal & Banking Co ... mortgages as security
for loan (1) tract of land in Catahoula Parish on Washeta River -
420 acres bounded by the Town of Harrisonburg above, and below by
lands of EDWARD DORSEY (2) tract of land in the Parish of Washita -
220 acres - adjoining lands of HITTON HEIRS below and WOOLDRIDGE &
KING above, also negroes PRINCE, man about 30; GUY about 30; BENAH
about 38; ANNIS about 30 with her children, LUCY 12, HARRY 10 and
LIZ: MATILDA 18; OLIVET 45; SAM 28,WINNY 35, EMILY 13; DINNA 12;
ABRAM 10 ... /s/ RICHARD KING,Witness:Z.T. KIRKLAND, H.B. JOHNSON
764C 14 May 1832 - JAMES McCARTNEY, late of Mississippi, sworn
that he has moved to Louisiana and brought with him the following
slaves: JUDE, a girl about 15, black about 4'8"; ALEXANDER a boy
about 6, no mark, black; MATILDA, a girl about 4 years; EDITHA about
2 1/2 ...
765C 17 May 1832 - JOHN M.B. HOMSON brought a negro
slave, JIM about 23; dark complexion ...
769C ZACHARIAH T.
KIRKLAND releases mortgage executed in his favor by JAMES G.
TALIAFERRO on 7 June 1831 on a tract of land in Catahoula Prairie
(198 acres) where TALIAFERRO now resides, a negro man, JOHN about
30; a woman ROSANNA about 27 and her child age 4, a negro boy;
WASHINGTON about 23 ... Witness: D.L.F. SHORT, M.R. COOKR
770C 14 June 1832 - JAMES G. TALIAFERRO and ELIZABETH MARIA BOYD
WILLIAMSON, his wife, being of the age of majority, this date made
their joint obligation in favor of The New Orleans Canal & Banking
Co. for $100 as a loan ... mortgage tract of land in Catahoula
Parish in the Catahoula Prairie (192 acres) being same on which
JAMES G. TALIAFERRO now resides and known as the Mill Place, also
negro man JOHN about 36, his wife, ROSANNA about 26; a negro girl
ELIZA about 6; a boy named WASHINGTON 25 ... Witness: M.H. DOSSON,
G. MAYO
771C March 1830 - City of New Orleans - PETE HICKMAN
appeared before a p.421 Notary and declared that for $425 he sells
to JOHN DOYAL of the Parish of Catahoula a negro slave, POLLY about
18 and her infant child, HARRIETT about 8 months ... Witness:
WILLIAM LAKE, WILLIAM BOSWELL
772C TRUMAN PHELPS for $1200
paid by LUMAN PHELPS sells a negro boy, p.422 ABRAM about 13 and a
tract of land containing 13 acres lying in the town of Harrisonburg
fronting on the Ouachita River, being same which TRUMAN PHELPS
acquired at Sheriff's Sale 17 August 1830, seized as the property of
EDWARD DORSEY at the suit of the Bank of Louisiana against DROSEY,
in presence of GEORGE MAYO, JAMES W. McDONALD, 11 June 1832 ...
773C 21 June 1832 - LUMAN PHELPS made his obligation to the New
Orleans Canal & Banking Co. for $1200 - mortgages a tract of land in
the town of Harrisonburg, 13 acres, and a negro woman, EVE about 38;
ABRAHAM about 14; JAMES 6: ELIZA 3 and JOHN 1 112 ... In the
presence of PHILIP J. COOKE and WILLIAM GIBSON ... Witness: P.J.
HOOKER, W.H. GIBSON
774C City of New Orleans - RICHARD KING
acting on his own personal name p.424 on the one part, and MATTHEW
MORGAN, Esq. of the City of New Orleans on the second part, ... KING
mortgages in favor of Union Bank, the following property: (1) tract
of land in the Parish of Terrebon on the east bank of Bayou Grand
Caillon, 12 arpents on front of Bayou and containing 376 superficial
arpents bounded on the lwer side by lands of WILLIAM P. BARROW and
above by lands of RICHARD KING; (2) tract of land in the same Parish
on the east bank of Bayou Grand Carillon adjoining the one described
above measuring 20 arpents front bounded on one side by lands and
the other by lands owned by R.H. WALKER containing 800 superficial
acres; (3) a tract of land on the west bank of the Ouachita in the
Parish of Catahoula containing 505 acres and bounded above by the
town of Harrisonburg and below by lands of MARY KING; (4) a tract of
land on the Ouachita River containing 455 acres bounded above by
lands of WOOLDRIDGE and below by T.B. BAYOU JOHN: (5) a tract of
land on east bank of Ouachita in Catahoula Parish and below by lands
of the MARQUIS OF MAISON ROUGE, together with all buildings,
improvements, construction, negro houses, stables, barns, stores,
implements of husbandry, horses, mules, oxen and slaves; DAN 35; GUY
20; PETER 20; KIZZY 35 belonging to the two first tracts of land;
JAMES 35; HARRY 35; ANTONIO 20; DAVID 10; PRIMAS 18; PRINCE 30;
SOPHIA 30; ANNA 30; LUCY 12; DIANA 11; MILES 12 - all hands of lands
in Ouachita; SAMUEL 27: DICK alias GUY 20; ANNIS 30; AMELIA 13;
WINNY 30; DENUS 30; all hands of lands in Catahoula Parish ... equal
to amount of 232 shares of stock Union Bank of Louisiana ... RICHARD
KING is indebted in the sum of $23,200 ...
789C 10 January
1833 - JAMES DESHA for $600 paid him by BENJAMIN B. BRUCE sells
negro man, JACK about 23 ... Witness: M.L. SHORT, R.H. BRUCE
790C State of Mississippi - Amite County - For several years I have
been acquainted with the following slaves: ISAAC about 35; MILLY
about 35; BEN 35, yellow complexion; PETER, black about 35; LOUSY 30
yellow complexion - the said ISAAC and MILLY belong to JAMAS MENDETH
BEN, PETER, LOUSY belong to THOMAS MENDETH - the aforesaid negroes
were originally brought from South Carolina... /s/ STEPHEN
WILKINSON, PETER FOUST
791C 9 February 1830 - State of
Mississippi - Amite County - Oath by STEPHEN WILKINSON and PETER
FAUST that they have known the above negroes for several years and
that they are of good character and not in the habit of running
away...
792C 23 January 1830 - Notary Public statement that
PETER FAUST and STEPHEN WILKINSON are respectable freeholders of the
state and county aforesaid and that they are of good character and
not vendors of negroes ... /s/ GABE FELDER, Deputy Clerk
794C
9 February 1830-State of Louisisna-Parish of Catahoula - BOWEN HILL
p.444 brought negroes into the state for his own use and not for
sale.
796C 2 January 1832 - ELI A. RATCLIFF brought into the
State from Mississippi a negro slave, ANDREW about 22, light black
complexion about 6 ft. with two scars on his left cheek. ANDREW
belongs to his father, BENJAMIN RATCLIFF of Mississippi, and was
raised by him. He was brought into the state for the use of BENHAMIN
RATCLIFF who is moving here... /s/ ELI A. RATCLIFF, M.H.DOSSON, JP
801C U.S. of America - State of Louisiana - JOHN M.B. THOMASON
by passage of an act before 19 November 1831, certified to be the
owner of nine slaves: DAVID about 29 or 30; JIM about 23; OBED about
20; BURVELL about 26; JENNY about 26 and her children ANDY age 12,
MARY ANN age 8, RENTY age 6, JOHN age 3; which slaves were in the
period aforesaid in the State of Alabama. A.B. ROWAN, Governor of
the State of Louisiana gives JOHN M.B. THOMASON permission to bring
slaves into the state - 26 February 1833
802C 16 March 1833 -
JOHN M.B. THOMASON appeared before JUDGE SAM LIGHTNER and declared
that he had entered the above nine slaves into the state of
Louisiana as the property of his brother, DANIEL who is insane and
for who he is appointed Tutor, to wit, a negro named JANE and her
children, ANDY, MARY ANN, RENTY and JOHN.
803C 12 March 1833
- JOSEPH THOMAS of the State and Parish of St. M for $1350 paid by
THOMAS BALLEW, and MARY THOMAS, his wife, sells slaves: MAIZE 21;
and LUCINDA his wife, age 18, and their child ISAAC age 1 ... /s/
JOSEPH THOMAS, MARY BALLEW, THOMAS BALLEW Witness: JN McINTOSH,
REZIN CRISWELL
Received of JOSEPH THOMAS, three negroes
MOSES, LAVINIA and her child ISAAC in full of our part of the
succession of JOSEPH THOMAS and MARY THOMAS, excepting our part of
the land on Big Creek which is hers and not sold by the said JOSEPH
THOMAS, the said BALLEW is to receive his part of the same of said
land sold or not sold to receive equal part at the death of said
THOMAS - 12 March 1833. /s/ THOMAS BALLEW, MARY BALLEW -,Witness:
REZIN CRISWELL, JN McINTOSH
810C 26 May 1833 - MICHAEL K.
HOOKER for $450 paid by JOHN M.B. THOMPSON sells a negro woman named
JANE about 18, dark complexioned... Witness: M.L. SHORT, T.J.
PENESTON
812C 1 June 1833 - HUGH B. JOHNSON and MARY DASH,
his wife, make a joint obligation in favor of the President &
Director & Co. of the Union Bank of Louisiana for $5,000 - mortgage
239 acres - 200 of which is in cultivation with cotton and corn -
certificates #580,581 and 582 on Deer Creek in the Parish of
Catahoula - bounded by lands of JOHN YOUNG above and below by lands
of P.M. BLACKSTONE. Also mortgage slaves: SAM 30; JUDAH 14; PATTY
25; WINEY 15; CELIA 40; JACK 27; ABRAHAM 13; CHARLOTTE 15; NANCY 46;
MARIA 12; TOM 11; JIM 8; HESTER 6; BIG TOM 22. /s/ H.B. JOHNSON,
MARY JOHNSON - Witness: JOSEPH CASE, ALEX McQUIN
814C 3 June
1833 - DAVID HOLSTEIN for $550 paid him by HENRY H. HOLSTEIN sells
negro MARTIN age 20, light complexion ... Witness: BURRELL JOHNSON,
J.W. McDONALD
815C HENRY HOLSTEIN acknowledges payment of
$550 paid him by BURRELL E. p.455 JOHNSON and sells negro man,
JOSEPH, yellow complexion about 31 3 June 1833 - Witness: D.
HOLSTEIN, KING G. HOLSTEIN
816C KING G. HOLSTEIN, HENRY H.
HOLSTEIN and DAVID HOLSTEIN for $1000 paid them by BURRELL E.
JOHNSON sells negro, PHEBE, about 20 and her three children,
CHARLOTTE 4; HARRIETT 3; and JOE 1 ... Witness: J.M. McDONALD, F.H.
POLLARD
817C 3 June 1833 - DAVID HOLSTEIN for $550 paid him
by BURRELL E. JOHNSON sells negro, EMELINE about 17 ... Witness:
HENRY HOLSTEIN, KING HOLSTEIN
822C 3 June 1833 - BURRELL E.
JOHNSON and his wife, ANN GRANT, made a joint p.458 obligation to
New Orleans Canal & Banking Co. for $1000 - mortgage 260 acres on
Sicily Island - 30 acres of which is in cultivation with cotton; a
negro, JOE, about 28; RANDEL 20; PHEBE 21; EMELINE 18 and here three
children CHARLOTTE, HARRIETT and JOE. /s/ BURRELL JOHNSON, ANN
JOHNSON Witness: DAVID HOLSTEIN, KING G. HOLSTEIN
823C 7 May
1833 Memphis, Tennessee - SAMUEL CARSON, of the State of Tennessee,
Sumner County, for $5500 paid by H.B. JOHNSON of the Parish of
Catahoula, State of Louisiana, sell the following slaves: CHARLES,
18 $700; SQUIRE, l8 $650; ISAAC, 28 $600; BOB, 18 $650; JACOB, 28
$550; JANE, 24 $425; MERICA, 17 $425; SAFRON, 17 $425; JULY ANN, 20
$400; TILLY, 14 $425; LARRY, 25 $325.
824C I June 1833 - HUGH
B. JOHNSON bought the within named slaves and brought them into the
state for his own use.
836C 21 May 1833 - MARY CLARK, alias
MARY REAGAN, wife of JOHN REAGAN, of the Parish of Ouachita,
acknowledges that for $1000 paid by (blank) sells a negro woman,
JANE, and her boy child, JERRY. LUMAN PHELPS and BURRELL JOHNSON to
pay balance by their promissory note for $300 in favor of JOHN
REAGAN and his wife, MARY.
839C W.H. GIBSON for $453.84 paid
by HARDY HILL sells negro woman, PUG, being same lately bought by
him,from M.H. DOSSON in payment of a judgment obtained ...
840C March Term 1833 - M.H. DOSSON vs. W.H. GIBSON and HARDY HILL -
received of HARDY HILL full amount of judgment with interest -
release lien on slave, PUG, now owned by said GIBSON - Witness: JAS
WILLIAMS
841C KING G. HOLSTEIN, DAVID HOLSTEIN and BURRELL E.
JOHNSON for $600 paid by HENRY H. HOLSTEIN sells negro man, NOEL,
age 20 ... Witness: HENRY J. PECK, H.H. KIPER
842C 26 July
1833 - HENRY H. HOLSTEIN and MARY HOLSTEIN, his wife, make joint
obligation to New Orleans Canal & Banking Co., for $1500.. mortgage
NOEL, age 20; MARTIN 20; JUDY 20; one child MORGAN 3; NED 2 months;
W 112 of Sec. 2, TS 10, R8E - 40 acres of which is in cultivation of
cotton ... Witness: WM. M. TEW, DAVID HOLSTEIN
845C 1
February 1833 - THOMAS L. HUMBLE for $425 paid by ALLEN D. RATCLIFF
sells negro girl, AMY, about 15 ... Witness: HOSEA MARKHAM, EDOM L.
FARRIS
846C 6 April 1833 - PHILIP J. HOOTER for $4134 paid
him by SAMUEL LIGHTNER p.480 sells eight negroes: JESSE 20; BOSTON
35; BETSY 30; JUDY 18; ROUNSY 18; BETSY's three children JERRY 6,
RACHEL age in months, - 73 acres of land on Sicily Island, stock of
26 head cattle, 4 head horses and farming utensils ... Witness:
LUMAN PHELPS, C.H. DABBS
848C RICHARD KING for $450 paid by
JANE C. CURRY sells negro girl, EMELINE p.482 about 13. Represented
by her husband, BENJAMIN P. CURRY ... Witness: JACOB RINEHARDT, JOHN
PRICHARD
856C Appeared JAMES G. TALIAFERRO and wife,
ELIZABETH M.B. WILLIAMSON p.486 and acknowledge they are jointly
indebted to Union Bank of Louisiana for $1200 ...mortgage land on
Big Creek -- 292 acres also slave GLOUCHESTER 34-38, a tall, stout
fellow; FANNY his wife, a stout wench of a light black color about
28-30; JOSUA about 14, a child of GLOUCHESTER .... Witness: TRUMAN
PHELPS, KING G. HOLSTEIN
857C 9 December 1833 - Union Bank at
Avoyelles accepts above mortgage.
858C JOHN HILL, SR. for
$400 paid by JOS WILLIAMS sells 29 acres being p.490 part of 640
acres on Rawson's Creek ... Witness: KING G. HOLSTEIN, WM TEW
Before SAMUEL LIGHTNER, appeared L.J. BROADWAY of the State of
Mississippi, who has imigrated,to this state and has introduced for
his own use slaves, BILL about 25, a mulatto about 5-10", GILBERT
about 20, black 5'8" or 9"... ,
859C 5 July 1833- CHARLES
PIPES of the Parish of Ouachita for $32,627 paid p.491 by HUGH B.
JOHNSON sells 700 acres in Parish of Catahoula on Deer Creek and
slaves: BIG TOM 25; JACOB 27; LITTLE TOM 14; JOHN 35; NANCY 30;
WALTER 19; CHARLES 18; BOB 19; ISAAC 28; MARY, MARIA 16; JUDY 15;
HESTER 7; MARTHA 4 months ... Witness: G. MAYO, LEVI MOCH
863C State of Louisiana - Parish of Concordia - 3 May 1824 p.490
HENRY J. PECK of Catahoula Parish and LAMINDA M. SMITH, his wife,
made a joint obligation in favor of Mechanics and Traders Bank of
New Orleans for the sum of $2,000 - mortgage tract of land and
plantation consisting of 473 acres situated on Sicily Island (Lot 1,
Sq. 33, TS 11, R8E,; Lot 2 same section and township; Lots 4 and 5
same section and township; also slaves: PHILIP 40; TENER, a woman
and wife of PHILIP; CHERRY a woman about 20; ISAAC about 21; LOUIS
19; RODY 15; JULIA 12; BETTY 3; DUBLIN 35; SAL wife of DUBLIN 28;
JUBER 2; JACK 35; RACHEL wife of JACK 28; CHARLOTTE 4; DAREAS 2;
BELFAST 30; LEAN 8; CHARLES 15; LIZZY 17; DINA ... 27 April 1836 -
Foregoing mortgage released for payment in full
873C State of
Louisiana-Parish of Baton Rouge-Copy E, No.141- Before p.507 CHARLES
W. CRAWFORD, Notary Public, appeared SIMEON J. BROADWAY of the
Parish of Catahoula, who declared he is indebted to WILLIAM NOBLE
for $333-33 ... mortgages mulatto boy, BILL, age 29 - 4 March 1835
876C 4 December 1835 - DAVID HOLSTEIN acknowledges he stands
indebted to the heirs of the succession of MRS. MARY MATTHEWS,
deceased, in the sum of $1405 ... for which he and JOBEZ W. DANIELS
execute promissory notes and mortgage negro, MOSES... Witness: WM.
M. TEW, J.W. McDONALD
No ROBERT L. DESHA mortgages to me for
the payment of money ... release mortgage - 28 February 1834 /s/
Z.T. KIRKLAND
877C 8 February 1834 - ROBERT L. DESHA, a
resident of the Parish of Catahoula, and PRISCILLA McDONALD, his
wife, acknowledge joint debt to the Union Bank of Louisiana in the
sum of $3000. Mortgage land on Turkey Creek being fractional 112
qtr. Lot 1 and 2 of Section 5, Township 10, Range 7E - 170 acres -
also negro CATA 35; MINGO a boy 15; SOPHA 25; ELIZA 21; AMY 8;
EDMUND 5. Witness: M.L. SHORT, ALLEN McDONALD
878C State of
Louisiana - Parish of Avoyelles - before LOUIS BORDELON, Notary,
came JOHN H. BOYER, President of the Branch of Union Bank of
Louisiana at Avoyelles, acting in behalf of the bank on a loan to
ROBERT L. DESHA for $3,000 - 28 February 1834
879C HENRY HAIR
releases mortgage executed by JAMES G. TALIAFERRO on negro, GEORGE -
4 March 1834 -
881C 25 March 1834 - JOSEPH FRANCIS, SR.
acknowledges he owes M.H. DOSSON $92.75 - mortgages negro, PETER,
about 13 ... Witness: STEPHEN R. HOLSTEIN, E. DOTY
882C
GEORGE W. LOVELACE transfers and conveys to his daughter, JANE C.
CURRY, a tract of land containing 800 arpents lying on Sicily Island
and being the same granted to LOVELACE by the Spanish Government ...
to be counted as part of her inheritance and undivided half of Mill
and Gin.. being accepted by BENJ. P. CURRY for his wife ... Witness:
P.J.HOOTER, H.H. KIPER
Received of JANE C. CURRY $850 for a
man named GEORGE, age 28 11 March 1835 /s/ WM LITTLE