(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION) LOUISIANA Sale of half of a very lar

Sale 2408 - Lot 41

Price Realized: $ 715

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

Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500

(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) LOUISIANA. Sale of half of a very large plantation called "The Olde Farm Place" and its forty-six slaves. Printed Document Accomplished by hand; large folio sheet, folded to form four pages, printed on two sides, written on three; partially parted at the vertical fold with some wear at the horizontal folds. Parish of Concordia, LA, 1842

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A detailed legal instrument recording the sale of the Olde Farm Place Bisland and Shields plantation and forty-six slaves, all named. Described as "One undivided half of a plantation known as the Olde Farm Place containing [in] all about four thousand acres more or less, situated on the Bayou Terre Bonne in the Parrish of Terrebonn . . . " This enormous tract of land and all of its houses was being purchased from William Bisland by John P. Watson for the sum of forty-six thousand five hundred dollars, a considerable sum. This property belonged to Mistress Mary L. Witherspoon, the wife of Bisland and owner of the property as part of her dowry. The Notary, writing this document, states that "out of hearing of her husband" he advised her of her rights regarding her property. But it is clear that she was ok with the sale of sale to settle her husband's debts. This seems like something direct from the pen of Margaret Mitchell. The first time we have had something this detailed for such an important piece of real estate.