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.
Date Range
Date
January 1, 1829
Collection
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