Bill of sale for Susan, an enslaved woman, and her four children, Mary, Martha, Virey, and Julia, sold by S. S. Tompkins to John S. Smyley, 1859 March 11 : autograph manuscript signed.
Bill of sale for Susan, an enslaved woman, and her four children, Mary, Martha, Virey, and Julia, sold by S. S. Tompkins to John S. Smyley, 1859 March 11 : autograph manuscript signed.
Bill of sale for Susan, an enslaved woman "about Thirty years of age," and her four children, Mary, aged ten; Martha, aged nine; Virey, aged six; and Julia, aged three, sold for "Thirty seven hundred and fifty Dollars" by S. S. Tompkins to John S. Smyley.
Title devised by cataloger.
Witness: M. M. Wright.
Title on verso: Bill of sale from S. S. Tomkins to J. S. Smyly 1859.
Place of production based on residence place listed in Ancestry.com, 1860 U.S. Federal Census - Slave Schedules entries for buyer and seller, accessed 2021 March 30.
Formerly titled: Bill of sale for one slave woman and her four children: Susan, 30 y.o., Mary, 10 y.o., Vivey, 6 y.o., and Julia, 3 y.o., from S.S. Tompkins to John S. Smyley.