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Document 33420

SLAVE AUCTION: 1857. ADS: "Walter Tate", 2p, 7¾x10, front and verso. Probate Court, Wilcox County, Alabama, circa September 1857. To The Hon. Zo. S. Cook, Judge of said Court. The report of a public auction of a woman and her two children. In part: "Under and by virtue of a Commission issued and addressed to the undersigned by your Honor directing us to sell certain negroes; to wit: Clarissa and her two children for the purpose of division among the heirs at Law of Mary E. McConnico dec'd, we, the undersigned Commissioners beg to report that in pursuance of the terms of said Commission did on Monday the 7th day of September 1857 at 12 o clock, M. SELL AT PUBLIC OUTCRY before the Court House door of said county the property described in said Commission to C.J. McConnico, who was the highest bidder for the same, for the sum of fifteen hundred and sixty five dollars said sum being the highest bid made at said sale...." Fine condition.

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