Account of Sale of Slaves from Thomas Jefferson’s Estate

An acct of sales of negroes of the Est of Thomas

Jefferson 1st Jan. 1829.

Price
Purchaser Names Negroes $ cts
+ Larkin RightJno m Perry x Abram 325
/ Jeco. Yancey Stanard 450
/ Geo. Blaetterman Ben & Lilly 385
/ Wm Garland x Bill Gill & Easther 590
/ Jno. m. Perry x Lania & child 295
+ / Jno. m. Perry x Washington 150
/ / Tho. J Randolph x James, Rachel & Edmund 300
+ James Lyle x Jimmy 415
+ Mr H. Arons Jas Lyle x Isaiah 395
+ James Lyle x Jerry 415
A S Brockenbrough Sy Simpston 600
+ Tho. J. Randolph x John Virginia, Ben, Easther & Bagwell 535
+ William Garland x Maria & Will & Betsey 535
+ Arthur Whitehourst x Davy (Cooper) 535
Dr Dunglison Waggoner David 270
Daniel Piper Indridge 320
+ William Garland x Nace - Cooper 455
+ Mr Pelett x Moses (Cooper) 545
+ John D Craven x Bartlett 250
+ Tho J Randolph x Jerry 100
+ Sam Carr x Jackson 225
+ Dr Bailey x Nancy 300
$ 8390
MS (ViU: Jefferson, Randolph, Taylor, Smith and Nicholas Family Papers, Mss 8937); in the hand of estate executor Alexander Garrett; with note on verso in the hand of estate executor Thomas Jefferson Randolph: “Sales Albemarle Jany 1 1829.”

Robley Dunglison had already purchased david Hern’s wife Fanny and their youngest child Bonnycastle at the January 1827 Monticello estate sale (Harriette Dunglison to Nicholas P. Trist, 13 Jan. 1827 [NcU: NPT]; Lucia Stanton, Free Some Day: The African-American Families of Monticello [2000], 65–6). Sydney R. pellet and Ira Pellet signed a promissory note and subsequently settled the debt for the purchase of Moses Gillette.