?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) ALABAMA. Order to take possession of Sarah, a yellow complexioned slave woman and her four children, the property William Delany, from Edward Delany, his brother. Single folio leaf written on both sides, with several lines crossed out; complex docketing with several lines, and orders added on the reverse. Northern Chancery, AL, 22 October 1851
An interesting document suggesting some intriguing possibilities. The Chancery Court orders William Delany to give up Sarah and her four children, adding that he is to "refrain from removing or carrying the following property Edward Delany has in his possession out of this state, to wit Sarah a Negro woman about thirty years old of yellow complexion and her three children, the property of his late wife Rebecca (late Adams) . . . " Why William has Edward's slave and her family is never made clear, although it seems that he did carry them off. On the reverse is a note dated a week later authorizing deputy sheriff Joseph Stanly to proceed to seize Delany, Sarah and her four (sic) children. There's a hint here of something possibly between Sarah and William?
