HAYWOOD COUNTY TENNESEE Deed of sale for Two Certain negroes

Sale 2377 - Lot 47

Price Realized: $ 250

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

Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500

HAYWOOD COUNTY, TENNESEE. Deed of sale for "Two Certain negroes (to wit) one a man by the name of Rasmus, about the age of eighteen years, the other a woman by the name of Massie, aged sixteen years," for $900. Long folio leaf, written on one side, docketed on reverse; elaborate signatures of the Boothes and Bradford. Haywood County, Tennessee, 21 January 1828

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The sellers were Stephen Boothe Sr. and Benjamin Boothe, both of Haywood County, Tennessee. Purchaser Hiram Bradford of Brownsville was a merchant; he owned a grist mill and operated the first cotton gin in the county.