Raynor HCA 2013-01
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Manuscript Document Signed “E.H. Bay” as Associate Justice of South Carolina, three attached pages, 19” x 26.75”, front and verso. Charleston, S.C., October 25, 1809. Also signed by court officers an attorneys. others. Soiled and tears with small portions missing near cross-folds. Attached in the upper mid-center above the red wax seal is a 6.5” x 8” sheet headed in calligraphy “Schedule of Negroes,” creased with partial separation at a horizontal fold, listing by name forty slaves, numbered 1 to 40, including Scipio, Minos, Monday, Moses, Carlos, Providence, Buonaparte, Jim Sireleon, Big Jim, Gambia, and Sailor Tom. The 33 male slaves are listed first followed by the female slaves numbered 34 to 40: Maria, Lucy, Nancy, Phoebe, Rose, Molly, and Peggy. Joseph Bixby of Georgia appointed his brother Nathan Bixby of South Carolina his attorney to execute an obligation binding the two brothers unto Jacob Martin for the sum of $9,100, empowering Nathan to mortgage 40 Negro slaves “at present employed on the plantation of the said Joseph Bixby in the State of Georgia known and distinguished by the names of Speculation.” It is agreed “that if default shall happen to be made...it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Jacob Martin...peaceably and quietly to enter into any or all the Messuages, Lands, or Tenements of the said Joseph Bixby, and to take the said Forty Negro slaves in the said Schedule mentioned, together with the future Issues and increase of the Females, into his custody and possession...” The document is docketed “Bill of Sale / by way of / Mortgage / of 40 Negroes in Georgia.” There is a notation that this obligation was “Satisfied Sept 3d 1835.” Elihu Hall Bay (c.1758-1834) was Associate Justice of the Court of General Sessions and Common Pleas of South Carolina. Born in Maryland and living in West Florida on a Royal land grant near the Mississippi River, Bay came to Charleston, S.C., after the Spanish conquest of British West Florida in 1781. A judge from 1791 until his death, Bay declined an appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court by Pres. Jefferson. Also present is a Manuscript DS “William Johnston,” two pages, 14.75” x 20.25”, front and verso. Camden County, Georgia, November 6, 1807. Planter William Johnston sells 200 acres of land on the Great Satilla River in Camden County, Georgia, to merchants Joseph and Nathan Bixby of Charleston, S.C., for $2000. Also signed by court clerks and “Abram Bessent” as witness. Abraham Bessent (1760-1814) of St. Mary’s, Camden County, Georgia, served as First Sergeant of Captain Morrell’s Company, First Regiment of General Francis Marion’s Brigade in the South Carolina Militia during the Revolutionary War. Soiled with numerous folds, tears, and portions missing. Transparent tape repairs on verso, one on recto. Entirely legible. Fair condition. This land was probably the plantation where the forty Negro slaves were “employed.”
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