Feb 25, 2010 - Sale 2204

Sale 2204 - Lot 51

Price Realized: $ 2,040
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION--LOUISIANA.) CITIZEN'S BANK OF LOUISIANA. Two multi-page mortgage documents involving plantations and slaves. Folio, 4to, and 8vo; partially printed and manuscript; creases where folded; some archival repairs; closed tears; original stamps and seals; ribbon-tied. Portions in French. should be seen. New Orleans, Terrebone Parish; Plaquemine Parish, 1836-1837

Additional Details

Two mortgages involving property of Gustave Delamare and J.C. Beatty. They include the slaves living on them: fourteen slaves in the one case and four in the other. These mortgages involved complex appraisals. The printed form for which includes specifics such as "Negro cabins, stables, stores and barns," etc. From the Citizen's Bank of Louisiana.