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The following was found in
The Moultrie County Heritage
Published By:
Moultrie County Historical & Genealogical Society

Vol. 10 No. 2, May, 1982

Page 54 

 SLAVES FOR SALE

    This is what a Kentucky farmer had to sell when he started West in 1849, as the bill now being reprinted in the county papers says:  (date 5 June 1925)

    Having sold my farm, and as I am leaving for Oregon territory by oxen team on March 1, 1849, I will sell all my personal property, except two oxen teams, Buck & Ben, and Lon & Jerry, consisting of the following:  2 milk cows, 1 grey mare & colt, 1 pair of oxen, 1 yoke, 1 baby yoke, 2 ox carts, 1 iron plow with wood mold boards.

    800’ of poplar weather boards, 1000 three-foot clap boards, 1500 10-foot fence rails, 1 60-gal. Soap kettle, 85 sugar troughs made of white ash timber, 10 gallons maple syrup, 2 spinning wheels, 30 lbs mutton tallow, large loom made by Jerry Wilson, 200 poles, 100 split hops, 100 empty barrels. 

   One 32-gal. Barrel Johnson-Miller whiskey, 7 years old, 20 gallon apple brandy, 1 40-gallon copper still.

    Four sides of oak tanned leather, 1 doz wooden pitchforks, a one-half interest in tan yards, 1 32-calibre rifle, bullet molds and powder horn.

    Fifty gallons soft soap, hams, bacon & lard, 40 gallons sorgum mollases, 6 head of fox hounds, all soft-mouthed but one.

    At the same time I will sell my six negro slaves; 2 men, 35 & 50 years old; 2 boys, 12 & 18 years old; 2 mulatto wenches, 40 & 30 years old.  Will sell all together to same party, as I will not separate them.

    Terms of sale:  Cash in hand or note to draw 4 per cent interest with Bob McConnel security.  My home is 2 miles south of Versailles, Kentucky on McConnel Ferry pike.  Sale will begin at 8 o’clock a.m.  Plenty to eat and drink.

Editor’s note:  This sale bill was a family keepsake of the late Crit Pierce, a prominent farmer, stock raiser in Whitley Township, Moultrie Co., IL – now in possession of his daughter, Mrs. Bill (Bess) Black, Sullivan.  Born in 1863, this evidently was a keepsake of someone in Mr. P (need to check quarterly again - Swick)