Valuable Plantation and Thirty Negroes for Sale, Lowndes, Alabama

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"VALUABLE PLANTATION AND THIRTY NEGROES FOR SALE 
    I offer for sale my plantation; lying on Steep Creek, Lowndes 
county, seventeen miles from Montgomery on the Alabama and Florida Rail 
Road, containing eleven hundred acres - one half post-oak prairie land, 
the balance creek lands - seven hundred acres in a high state of 
cultivation, the balance well timbered, good gin-house and screw, 
comfortable dwelling house, new negro houses sufficient for thirty or 
forty hands, well watered. Also, I will sell thirty negroes, young and 
likely, between twenty and twenty-five good field hands. Terms made to 
suit the purchaser. For information apply on the premises or address the 
subscriber at Steep Creek Post Office, Lowndes county, Ala. Dec. 9, 
1859:41   W. F. BYRD. " (1) 
 
(1) The Watchman, Hayneville, Alabama, Friday, May 25, 1860, page 4. 
Published  in Lowndes Co., AL. Microfilm: Located in the Alabama 
Archives and  History, Montgomery, AL.