Box 1
Container
Contains 2 Results:
Slave-hire contract
File — Box: 1, Folder: 21
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The L. T. Barret Collection compliments the more extensive Lyne Taliaferro Barret Papers (A-5) by adding new documentation of L. T. Barret’s mercantile and farming pursuits, military service, masonry, and community service. While the collection consists primarily of bills, receipts and promissory notes issued and received by L. T. Barret and Thomas Jefferson Johnson, there is also business, family, military, and personal correspondence, advertising, slave contracts and legal documents.
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Dates:
1839-1966
Twelve-month contract between Isaac Whitaker and T. Jeff Johnson, Nacogdoches County, hiring out the labor of his slave woman Talba and her son, Jeff, for $75, 1/1/1846
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 21, Item: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The L. T. Barret Collection compliments the more extensive Lyne Taliaferro Barret Papers (A-5) by adding new documentation of L. T. Barret’s mercantile and farming pursuits, military service, masonry, and community service. While the collection consists primarily of bills, receipts and promissory notes issued and received by L. T. Barret and Thomas Jefferson Johnson, there is also business, family, military, and personal correspondence, advertising, slave contracts and legal documents.
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Dates:
1/1/1846