Bill of Sale (Moses), 1845
Transcription:
In consideration, of the sum of seven hundred dollars to me in hand paid, I do hereby bargain and sell to the trustees of the University of Alabama, a negro man named Moses, age about twenty eight years: which said negro I warrant to be a sound and healthy and a slave for life; and do hereby undertake to defend the title to him to the Trustees +c. Given under my hand and seal, this third day of January 1845.
Signed, sealed and delivered
In presence of
Henry W. Collier J. E. Rial
The State of Alabama
Tuscaloosa County: Personally appeared before me Moses McGuire Clerk of the County Court for said county, J. R. Rial who acknowledged that he signed sealed and delivered the forgoing Instrument of writing, on the day of the date thereof, To the Trustees of the university of Alabama for the purposes therein [expressed]
Given under my hand and seal this Seventh day of January A.D. 1845
Moses McGuire Clerk (seal).
Filed for Registration on the Seventh day of January 1845 + recorded in Book [U] pages 252 & 253.
Moses McGuire, Clerk
Source: Bill of sale from J. E. Rial to Board of Trustees at The University of Alabama, January 3, 1845, RG 1 University of Alabama Early Administrative Records, folder 90b, W.S. Hoole Special Collections, University of Alabama.
In consideration, of the sum of seven hundred dollars to me in hand paid, I do hereby bargain and sell to the trustees of the University of Alabama, a negro man named Moses, age about twenty eight years: which said negro I warrant to be a sound and healthy and a slave for life; and do hereby undertake to defend the title to him to the Trustees +c. Given under my hand and seal, this third day of January 1845.
Signed, sealed and delivered
In presence of
Henry W. Collier J. E. Rial
The State of Alabama
Tuscaloosa County: Personally appeared before me Moses McGuire Clerk of the County Court for said county, J. R. Rial who acknowledged that he signed sealed and delivered the forgoing Instrument of writing, on the day of the date thereof, To the Trustees of the university of Alabama for the purposes therein [expressed]
Given under my hand and seal this Seventh day of January A.D. 1845
Moses McGuire Clerk (seal).
Filed for Registration on the Seventh day of January 1845 + recorded in Book [U] pages 252 & 253.
Moses McGuire, Clerk
Source: Bill of sale from J. E. Rial to Board of Trustees at The University of Alabama, January 3, 1845, RG 1 University of Alabama Early Administrative Records, folder 90b, W.S. Hoole Special Collections, University of Alabama.
