?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION--LOUISIANA.) Manuscript 'commission' to auctioneer Juan Manuel Moreno, to offer at 'public sale' 12 slaves plus the contents of the house and barns of Mr. John Kleinpeter of Baton Rouge. Bi-folium leaf, folded to form four pages, written on three sides and docketed on the fourth; crease where folded; some light toning to the blue-tinted paper. (WGC) Baton Rouge, 1848
A legal instrument signing over the entire estate of the late John Kleinpeter to auctioneer Juan Manuel Moreno, with stipulation that the bids on the slaves, must reach the 'reserves' placed to the right of their names and paid for in cash. The Kleinpeter, or Clempetre family were early settlers in what was once Spanish territory. Their lands consisted of at least four large land grants from Spanish Crown in the late 18th century.
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