Mary was married to William Riley Jones, who served in Company G of the 41st Alabama Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. In the letter John and Nancy thank Mary for her letter, ask for more news, and send their "love and respectes to all...
Hall purchased the slaves, a woman named Amey and her two children, for $500. Alexander agrees to compensate Hall if the woman is found to have a venereal disease: "in case the said negroe woman Amey has the clap or pox as supposed, I will make up...
Burge purchased the slave, woman named Mary Ann, for $400 on November 25, 1815. On the back of the receipt are three further transactions involving Mary Ann: first, she was transferred to John Butterworth on April 6, 1818; then she was sold to...
Butterworth purchased the slave, a thirteen- or fourteen-year-old young woman named Fanny, for $500 on April 6, 1818. On the back of the receipt are two further transactions involving Fanny: first, she was transferred to Green Wood on April 18, and...
From pages 123 and 124 of ACTS PASSED AT THE SIXTH ANNUAL SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ALABAMA, published in 1825: "And be it further enacted, That the coloured girl Francoise Leones, daughter of a black woman named Francoise,...
From page 122 of ACTS PASSED AT THE SIXTH ANNUAL SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ALABAMA, published in 1825: "Be it therefore enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the state of Alabama in General Assembly convened,...
From page 123 of ACTS PASSED AT THE SIXTH ANNUAL SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ALABAMA, published in 1825: "And be it further enacted, That the coloured woman named Clarissa, aged about forty-six years, and the coloured girl named...
From pages 122 and 123 of ACTS PASSED AT THE SIXTH ANNUAL SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ALABAMA, published in 1825: "And be it further enacted, That Venus a black woman, and her two children, viz. Francis a mulatto boy, aged about...
From page 122 of ACTS PASSED AT THE SIXTH ANNUAL SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ALABAMA, published in 1825: "And be it further enacted, That Carmelete [sic] a black woman, and her infant child, named Marian, aged about eighteen...
From pages 123 of ACTS PASSED AT THE SIXTH ANNUAL SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ALABAMA, published in 1825: "And be it further enacted, That the mulatto girl named Mileysertte alias Millescent, aged about seven years, daughter of...
The deed specifically protects the gift from the control of Alpha's husband: "...the said John Thomas Neal, may have the use of the said negroe [sic] girl while he lives, as a husband to his wife and a father to his children, but that is all he...
In the letter McConnell discusses debts he owes and recent payment for legal services that Dellet provided. He also mentions personal problems, such as the loss of his sons, "negro woman," and house; he is left alone to plant and harvest his crops.
In the letter Miller discusses a mill he would like to purchase, the return of a slave woman who has run away, and the possibility of selling some of his slaves to pay for his son's debts.
In the letter Hawkins describes a case involving a slave woman who was purchased by a freedman, and then reclaimed and sold several times. He asks Dellet to represent Napoleon and Massina Starke, who want to recover the woman.
E. B. Warden was a Quaker woman originally from the Philadelphia area. She traveled to Tuscaloosa, Alabama for her health and stayed there for an unknown period of time. In the letter she writes of the climate and society in the city, neither of...
In the letter Gorin asks Dellet to buy three slaves so she can help pay some of her husband's debt. She wants him to purchase the man, woman, and child for $1,300, and then she plans to take them to New Orleans and hire them out by the day. It is...
In the letter Davison, an overseer for Dellet, discusses weather, livestock, and harvesting crops. He also describes punishing two slaves. He whipped a woman and shot a man in the leg; according to Davidson, "...I went to whip him and he told me if...