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Sale of Cuban born slave in Natchitoches Parish in 1813.
title
Sale of Cuban born slave in Natchitoches Parish in 1813.
Subject
United States. Works Progress Administration of Louisiana, Slavery, Slave trade, Documents
Date Issued
1813-10-19
Abstract
Text, October 19, 1813. Document of sale of a slave named Jean, born in Havana, belonging to Simon Bellar to Pierre David Cailleau Lafontaine.
Record of sale of slaves, cattle, horses, and utensils owned by Pierre Joseph Maes in Natchitoches Parish in 1802.
title
Record of sale of slaves, cattle, horses, and utensils owned by Pierre Joseph Maes in Natchitoches Parish in 1802.
Subject
United States. Works Progress Administration of Louisiana, Cattle, Meat industry, Slavery, Slave trade, Plows, Axes, Tobacco, Carts & wagons, Documents
Date Issued
1802-03-06, 1802-03-08
Abstract
Text, March 6,7 & 8, 1802. Record of sale of slaves, cattle, horses, and utensils owned by Pierre Joseph Maes in Natchitoches Parish. The purchaser can pay in either American or Mexican currency. A list of each item, animal or person, their purchaser, a short description of them and the price are provided.
Sale of one slave from a freed man of color, Pacalay, to a freed mulatto, Mr Nicollas Augustine Metoyer in Natchitoches Parish in 1813.
title
Sale of one slave from a freed man of color, Pacalay, to a freed mulatto, Mr Nicollas Augustine Metoyer in Natchitoches Parish in 1813.
Subject
United States. Works Progress Administration of Louisiana, Slaves, Slavery, Slave trade, Documents, African Americans
Date Issued
1813-03-29
Abstract
Text, March 29, 1813. Sale of one slave (Francois, aged 25), from a freed man of color, Pacalay, to a freed mulatto, Nicollas Augustine Metoyer in Natchitoches Parish in 1813. Witnesses are listed and the document is registered by P.D. Cailleau Lafontaine, Notary Public.
Agreement of partnership between William Long and Joseph T. Robinson.
title
Agreement of partnership between William Long and Joseph T. Robinson.
Subject
Documents, Deals, Slaves, Slavery, Slave trade
Date created ms
1837-09-18, 1837-09-18
Abstract
Robinson purchases an interest in the real and slave property of Long. Includes list of slaves.
Act of sale of property by John S. Deaderick, Washington County, Missouri, to Ferdinand Kennett, Jefferson County, Missouri
title
Act of sale of property by John S. Deaderick, Washington County, Missouri, to Ferdinand Kennett, Jefferson County, Missouri
Subject
Documents, Business & Finance, Slave trade
Date created ms
1861-1-18, 1861-1-18
Abstract
Deaderick sold his farm, which consisted of three Spanish grants near the mouth of the Platin [sic] River, to Kennett for $47,000. The document indicated Kennett's mode of payment in cash, stocks, notes, and slaves. Kennett sold to Deaderick, for $2,000, two female slaves - Greasy Beck, seventeen, and Lucy, twelve.
Citizens Bank of Louisiana appraisal certificate
title
Citizens Bank of Louisiana appraisal certificate
Subject
Documents, Slave trade
Date created ms
1836-11-17, 1836-11-17
Abstract
Of the property of Honore P. Moraney, including land, buildings, animals, and slaves.
Bill of sale of a negro boy
title
Bill of sale of a negro boy
Subject
Documents, Slaves, Slavery, Slave trade
Abstract
Boy named Narcisse, from Miriam Guekairy to Shepperd Brown.
Procès-verbal of the sheriff's sale of the slaves of Mrs. J.J. Tainturie to George Lanaux
title
Procès-verbal of the sheriff's sale of the slaves of Mrs. J.J. Tainturie to George Lanaux
Subject
Documents, Slave trade
Date created ms
1856-4-22, 1856-4-22
Abstract
Sheriff Bell, acting on an order of the Fifth District Court, New Orleans, in the suit of Mrs. J.J. Tainturier against her husband, advertised the auction of the female slave Celeste, age thirty-two, and her three children, ages two to eight. The sale was held on 1856 April 22 in the rotunda of the City Exchange. The highest bidder was Theodore Lanaux, representing George Lanaux, who bought the slaves for $1,750.
 Sale of slave by William J. Yeatman, no place, to Edward Moore, [Iberville Parish?]
title
 Sale of slave by William J. Yeatman, no place, to Edward Moore, [Iberville Parish?]
Subject
Documents, Slave trade, Slavery
Date created ms
1839-2-11, 1839-2-11
Abstract
Yeatman sold Moore a male slave named Henry, about twenty years old, for $800. Moore had the document recorded in Iberville Parish on 1840 June 10.
Mortgage of land and 49 slaves by Eliphalet and Abigail Cutter Slack
title
Mortgage of land and 49 slaves by Eliphalet and Abigail Cutter Slack
Subject
Documents, Mortgages, Slaves, Slavery, Slave trade
Date created ms
1836-03-02, 1836-03-02
Abstract
In favor of the Citizens Bank of Louisiana. The slaves are listed by name and age.
Order issued by the Directors of the Company [of the Indies], [Paris], to the Louisiana Council
title
Order issued by the Directors of the Company [of the Indies], [Paris], to the Louisiana Council
Subject
Documents, Business & finance, Slave trade
Date created ms
1724-05-17, 1724-05-17
Abstract
The Company of the Indies ordered the Council of Louisiana to deliver fifty Negroes (thirty males and twenty females) to M. [Joseph] Paris Duvernay [or, Duverney]. These were to be taken from the first shipload of slaves to arrive in the colony. The Louisiana bank would be credited with 40,000 livres, which Paris Duvernay had already paid the Company in Paris. The price of each slave was 800 livres.
Sale of slave by James Catlett, no place, to Ferdinand Kennett, [Washington County, Missouri]
title
Sale of slave by James Catlett, no place, to Ferdinand Kennett, [Washington County, Missouri]
Subject
Documents, Slave trade
Date created ms
1857-1-20, 1857-1-20
Abstract
Catlett sold to Kennett a male slave named Michael, age thirty-one, for $1,200.
Sale of slave by Thomas White to Ferdinand Kennett
title
Sale of slave by Thomas White to Ferdinand Kennett
Subject
Documents, Slave trade
Date created ms
1856-4-18, 1856-4-18
Abstract
White sold Kennett a male slave named Frank, age thirty-seven, for $1,000; autograph document signed
Sale of slave from the estate of the late Daniel Curd by H.P. Curd, executor, no place, to H.T. Curd
title
Sale of slave from the estate of the late Daniel Curd by H.P. Curd, executor, no place, to H.T. Curd
Subject
Documents, Slave trade, Slavery
Date created ms
1843-8-5, 1843-8-5
Abstract
H.P. Curd sold to H.T. Curd a black woman named Jude and her three children for $1,000
Sale of slaves by Joshua M. Johnston, New Orleans, to Oramel Hinckley, Saint Landry Parish
title
Sale of slaves by Joshua M. Johnston, New Orleans, to Oramel Hinckley, Saint Landry Parish
Subject
Documents, Slave trade
Date created ms
1859-1-4, 1859-1-4
Abstract
Before Notary Public Richard Brénan of New Orleans, Johnston sold to Hinckley, for $1,150, an undivided half share in the slave Ben, age twenty-seven, valued at $1,300, and Jacob, alias Jake, age twenty-six, valued at $1,000. Johnston had acquired his half interest from the estate of his late brother James Johnston. The buyer was the owner of the other undivided half share.
Royal ordinance concerning ships involved in the Negro trade in the French islands of America
title
Royal ordinance concerning ships involved in the Negro trade in the French islands of America
Subject
Documents, Ordinance, Slave trade
Date created ms
1725-07-25, 1725-07-25
Abstract
The Royal Ordinance of 1718 April 3 had forbidden captains of bringing Negroes to the French islands of America to permit any association with the inhabitants of the port of disembarkation prior to inspection and certification by sanitation officials that there were no contagious diseases aboard and issuance of a permit to disembark. The law, however, had been frequently ignored, and captains had sold Negroes to the islanders prior to sanitation inspection. The King prohibited such sales and imposed a penalty of 1,000 livres, which the informer of the violation would receive. Moreover, captains guilty of the offense would be declared unfit for command.
Sale by Lislet Moreau to Bernard Marigny of a 14-year old slave
title
Sale by Lislet Moreau to Bernard Marigny of a 14-year old slave
Subject
Documents, Slaves, Slave trade, Slavery
Date created ms
1835-08-02, 1835-08-02
Abstract
Slave to be treated like a Free Woman of Color but not to be liberated without the consent of the vendor.
Sale of slaves by M.F. White, no place, to Ferdinand Kennett, Jefferson County, Missouri
title
Sale of slaves by M.F. White, no place, to Ferdinand Kennett, Jefferson County, Missouri
Subject
Documents, Slave trade
Date created ms
1859-5-10, 1859-5-10
Abstract
White sold to Kennett, for $2,200, a family of slaves - Cyrus, age fifty, his wife Fanny, forty-three, and their four female children, ages eight to fourteen.
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