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.
