(SLAVERY) Deed of 19 enslaved people to the wife of future C

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(SLAVERY.) Deed of 19 enslaved people to the wife of future Confederate general Richard Griffith. Manuscript Document Signed by the grantors and various clerks. 3 pages, 12¾ x 7¾ inches, on one folding sheet, with docketing on final blank; folds, minimal wear. Jackson, MS, 13 February 1856

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A gift deed of "the following named Negro slaves, to wit: Billy or William; Jim Brown and his wife Nancy with her three children Amand, Narcissa and Ann; Winny with her three children Pleasants, William and Jacob; Mary with her three children John, Charles and Merriman; Martha and her child Henry; also Fanny, Catharine, and Cassy; to have and to hold the same forever." The deed was made from Benjamin and Lucy Whitfield to their daughter Sarah A.E. Griffith, young wife of Richard Griffith (1814-1862). Griffith was a Philadelphia-born transplant to Mississippi who befriended Jefferson Davis during the Mexican War, and would soon rise swiftly in the Confederate Army before dying in combat in 1862.