Fanny, Washington, Jack, and Peter, Mississippi, 1842

Title: Fanny, Washington, Jack, and Peter, Mississippi, 1842
Description: Handwritten receipt detailing payment of $1550 from William Brown to Samuel F. Arrington for these enslaved children, ages 16, 14, 12, and 11, respectively.

Brown was a plantation owner in Hinds County, Mississippi.
Transcript: Received of William Brown Fifteen Hundred and fifty Dollars in full for Four Negroes named Fanny aged sixteen years Washington aged fourteen years Jack aged Twelve years and Peter aged Eleven years which Negroes I warrant sound in Body and Mind and slaves for life This 24th day of December A.D. 1842.
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Samuel L. Arrington
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James Rhoades wts
Date: 24 December 1842
Source: Digitized item
Is Part Of: William and Crawford L. Brown family papers (MSS.3759); Finding aid