(SLAVERY) Group of bills of sale for enslaved people in Tenn

Sale 2663 - Lot 416

Price Realized: $ 1,062

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900

(SLAVERY.) Group of bills of sale for enslaved people in Tennessee and Kentucky. 4 items, various sizes up to 11 x 8 inches; minor wear. Various places, 1811-1855

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Receipt for "a Negrow boy by the name of Jerry, age about ten years" sold from D.H.E. Sanderson to Ezekiel Fuller. Madison County, TN, 14 March 1838.

Bill of sale of "a Negro boy Jim, aged twenty-five" from Richard W. Gardner to Alfred Gardner, witnessed by C. O'Bryan. No place, 3 June 1850. Possibly from slave owner Richard Whitehead Gardner (1807-1851) to his brother Alfred E. Gardner (1805-1882) of Weakley County, TN?

Bill of sale of "a Negro man named Henry about twenty four years of age" at a courthouse auction to A.H. Cunningham, signed by John Petty as commissioner. Elizabethtown, KY, 12 November 1855.

Bill of sale of "three Negroes, to wit, Scipio, a man about thirty five years of age & his two sons Michael & Tom . . . Michael 8 years of age & Tom 6 years of age, from Charles Tyler Jr. as administrator of the estate of Robert Carter, to David M. Hickman. No place, 15 May 1811. This may be to large slaveholder David McClanahan Hickman (1788-1851) of Bourbon County, KY; he later settled in Boone County, MO in 1822. The seller was possibly the estate of Robert Wormley Carter (1774-1809) of Loudoun County, VA, whose widow Heabard Grayson Carter moved to Paris in Bourbon County shortly after his death. This suggests that Scipio and his sons may have been moved from Virginia to Kentucky to frontier Missouri over the course of a few years.