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Box 1

 Container

Contains 4 Results:

Slave transactions

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 27
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. ...
Dates: 1839-1966

Contract between Emily L. Thompson, executrix of her husband’s estate, and Robert A. Irvin, Nacogdoches County, concerning $96 owed for the labor of slave woman Lucy, 5/2/1851

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 27, 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. ...
Dates: 5/2/1851

Agreement between Jacob Mast and Davis King, Nacogdoches County, selling a slave named Silas for $1100, 9/11/1858

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 27, Item: 2
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. ...
Dates: 9/11/1858

Appraisal of slaves belonging to the estate of N. B. Thompson, 12/20/1861

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 27, Item: 3
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. ...
Dates: 12/20/1861