BATON ROUGE LOUISIANA Appraisal of the estate and slaves of

Sale 2377 - Lot 76

Price Realized: $ 688

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

Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500

BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA. Appraisal of the estate and slaves of Oliver W. Caulfield. Large folio leaf, folded to form four tall folio pages, written on three sides and docketed on the fourth; two neat punch-holes at the top of the page; written in a neat cursive hand, on blue "legal" paper, Signed by Samuel Skolfield, Recorder, and by the appraisers, Richard K. Massey and William Sowell, witnessed by William Bryan and James Elam. Baton Rouge, 1852

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with a detailed list of 26 slaves, their names and value. The appraised value of these slaves varies from as little as $150 for Malvina, a girl, 2 years old to $450 for "Missy, a girl age 12 years," to $1000 each for several young men in their twenties, for example: "Ralph, a Negro man aged 28 years." Skolfield served with the Louisiana Militia in the War of 1812 and died in East Baton Rouge in 1866. Elam was a Baton Rouge lawyer and Bryan was the editor of the Iberville South newspaper.