Court documents relating to the sale of Jenny, an enslaved woman, from James L. Fitts to Henry E. Solomons, Beaufort County, South Carolina, 1850 March 4 :manuscript signed.

2 court documents relating to the sale of Jenny, an enslaved woman, to Henry E. Solomons as part of the settling of the estate of James M. Fitts by his executor James L. Fitts. In the first document Richard James Davant, the commissioner in equity for Beaufort District, approves and confirms the sale of Jenny to Henry E. Solomons for six hundred thirteen dollars, citing a previous court order allowing the sale. The second document is a mortgage obtained by Solomons for four hundred fifty nine dollars and sixty seven cents, plus interest, to purchase Jenny from James L. Fitts. This mortgage was approved by Richard James Davant and witnessed by F.W. Fickling. An addendum registers the mortgage with the state of South Carolina.

The documents are pre-printed forms with blank spaces filled in as appropriate in manuscript.

Title devised by cataloger.

Bill of sale dated in text: This 4th day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty and in the seventy fourth year of the independence of the United States of America.

Previously titled: Documents pertaining to the sale of one slave: Jenny, $618, from James M. Fitts to Henry E. Solomons, Beaufort District, Charleston, S.C.