Bill of sale for Gorge, an enslaved person, from Joseph Beard to William Chambless, 1854 November 13 :manuscript.

Item Info

Title:
Bill of sale for Gorge, an enslaved person, from Joseph Beard to William Chambless, 1854 November 13 :manuscript.
Date:
November 13, 1854
Creator:
Chambless, William, active 1860, purchaser, enslaver
Contributor:
Gorge, 1835 or 1836, -enslaved person
Description:

  • Summary: Bill of sale for "a negro boy named Gorge about eighteen of age", sold by Joseph Beard to Wm. Chambless for "nine hundred dollars" on "13 day of November 1854". Witnessed by B.F. Chambless.

  • Joseph Beard cannot be positively identified as there were three enslavers with that name listed in the 1850 United States Federal Census Slave Schedules. Potential enslavers lived in Pointe Coupee, Louisiana, Greenbrier, Virginia, and Fayette, Kentucky.

  • Title devised by cataloger.

  • Originally cataloged with one other item under title: Documents relating to the sale of a runaway slave, George, belonging to Augustus Stanley of Davidson County, Tenn., Warren County, Ky.

Location:
Subject:
Format:
bills of sale
Publisher:
Randolph County, Ga., 1854 November 13.
Language:
English
Digital Collection:
American Slavery Documents
Source Collection:
American slavery documents collection
Series:
Slavery Series
Rights:
Free Re-Use
No Copyright - United States
Identifier:
  • 010291907
  • americanslaverydocs
  • asdsi003021
  • ark:/87924/r4dz0f184
  • 5fab175b-d713-459f-880e-65c5bc400aeb
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