Court/Probate:  Bugg will, listing slave distribution, Claiborne Parish, Louisiana
Submitted for the LAGenWeb Archives by: Mary Turner 
Date:  Mar. 2000


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P EO Sturges wife of M.A. Sturges shall have a negro boy named Elbert and a 
negro girl named Alberta, one bay horse, four cows one note of fifty dollars 
and twenty five dollars in money as her destributive share of the estate 
aforesaid and that E. D. Bugg shall have all other effects both real and 
personal of any kind whatsoever except negro man named Nathan belonging to 
and held or owned by said Quin Bugg at the time of his death upon condition 
that he pay all the debts of said Quin Bugg deceased and now that the said 
distribution as above stated may be binding and of effect in law we do each 
for ourselves our heirs and for those we represent relinquish and forever 
quit claim for ourselves our heirs and assigns all the right all interest or 
claim to any or all of the property belonging to the estate of said Quin Bugg 
deceased except to our distributive share as stated above and to the negro 
man named Nathan who the said Quin Bugg deceased desired as he expressed 
previous to his death in the presence of Johnothan Taylor Young D. Allen J. 
B. Kennedy and others should belong to his nephew Quin F. Bugg minor child of 
E. D. Bugg now in consideration of said request made as above stated we the 
legal heirs and the representatives of the legal heirs of Quin Bugg deceased 
as aforesaid do hereby relinquish and forever quit claim for ourselves our 
heirs and assigns unto the said negro man Nathan.  In testimony whereof we 
have each for ourselves and for those we represent herewith subscribed our 
names in presence of Benjamine and Henry Drake witnesses of lawful age and 
domiciliated in said parish and state on the 28th day of October the year one 
thousand eighty hundred and sixty three.
Attest Signed:
Benjamine Bugg
Henry Drake
Signed:
Geaorge C. Sturges, Natural Tutor
Narcissa Sturges
E. D. Bugg, Agent for S. L. Steed
E. D. Bugg
Permelia E. V. Sturgis
J. R. Ramsey, Recorder
A true Record Nov. 4th, 1863

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