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Identifier
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JMLMS1141.1-3.01February1848BillofSaleJamesPotterCoto.1-4
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Source Identifier
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621
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Title
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Bill of Sale to James Potter (1848)
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Description
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Digital images of a Bill of Sale from Elisha Wylly to James Potter on 01 February 1848. The bill details the purchase of named enslaved persons Coto, June, Barbary, and Tom.
This document is part of Manuscript Collection 1141, the Potter Estate Papers, Box 1-3.
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Date
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18 February 1848
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Location
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Georgia, United States of America
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Digital Format
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image/jpeg
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Language
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English
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Repository
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George M. Jones Library Association
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Transcription
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"Elisha Wylly Sherriff
Of Chatham County
For James Potter
Bill of Sale of Negroes
Coto, June, Barbary
And Tom
Consideration $1500.00
Title 1.25
Total $1501.25
State of Georgia Clerks Office
Chatham County Superior Court
I R. F. Akin Deputy
Clerk Supt. Have recorded the within
Deed in Book E.E.E. folio 417 this 7th
day of February 1848
[$75] R F Akin
Dep Clk
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"State of Georgia
Chatham County Know all men by these presents that
[ ] at the May [Fair] 1823 of the Superior Court of
Chatham County, the [ ] [ ] of the State of Georgia
obtained a judgement against John P. Willaimson for the
sum of fifteen thousand dollars with Interest Cost upon
which Judgement Execution [fined] and came to the hands of
Elisha Wylly Sheriff of Chatham County, commanding him to
[ ] in the [ ] and chattel lands and Tenements of
John P Williamson, And Whereas Elisha Wylly Sheriff
as aforesaid under & by notice of said Execution did seize and
levy on the following negro Slaves to wit Coto/Carpenter/
aged twenty five years, and Juno his wife aged twenty[three] years, and their children Barbary Six years, and Tom six month,
as the property of John P. Williamson to satisfy said
[Executrion], And Whereas the said Sheriff having [advertized] the sale thereof on the first day of February 1848
being the first [tuesday] thereof, did on that day in due
from of Law, sat [ ] and [ ] to Sale by public Outcry
at the Court House in the City of Savannah the said
negro Slaves Coto, Juno, Barbary and Tom and they
were [knocked ] off to James Potter at and for the price
or sum of fifteen hundred dollars being the highest and
best bid that could be obtained for the same.
Now Know Ye that I Elisha
Wylly Sheriff aforesaid under & by [ ] of said Execution
and the Law of the Land for and in consideration of
the sum of fifteen hundred dollars to me in hand paid
by the said James Potter, the receipt whereof is hereby
acknowledged DO bargain sell and deliver unto the
said James Potter the said negro Slaves above mentioned,
Together with all the right title [described] [as] [service] of
the said John P. Williamson, or which he [ever] [had]
[at] [Law] or in equity,
To have and To hold"
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"the said negro slaves Coto Juno Barbary and Tom
unto the said James Potter his heir and assigns to the
sole [& only] [proper] use benefit and [belief/behalf] of the said
James Potter his heirs and assigns forever.
In Witness Wherof, I
Elisha Wylly Sheriff as aforesaid have hereunto set my
hand Seal this first day of february A.D. Eighteen
hundred forty eight.
Signed Sealed & Delivered
[ni/in] presence of
Edward S. Wilson Elisha Wylly [signature and seal]
J.P. & N.P Shff. Chat. County."
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Rights
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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Rights Holder
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George M. Jones Library Association
