By: (Young, Laura). Butler, Richard P. (1792-1885); Barrett, Eliza (1779-1849); and Turpin, Philip Osborne (1808-1882).
Price: $450.00
Publisher:
Gallatin County, Kentucky, November 14, 1836.: 1836.
Seller ID: 95965
Condition: Very good
- Over 125 words penned in a secretarial or clerk's hand on 7 inch high by 7-1/2 inch wide buff paper. The emancipation document freeing a "Negro Girl named Laura Young" from her status as a slave to Eliza Barrett binds Barrett and her nephew Philip O. Turpin, obligating them to pay the sum of "five hundred" dollars should the county need to support the girl. The document is twice endorsed in ink on the verso by Richard P. Butler, the clerk of Gallatin County and additionally docketed in a faint unknown hand. Folded twice horizontally and once vertically with a small tear along...
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