Court Records: William H. Cobb-Clinton Allen; East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana
Submitter: Ann B. Singleton
Date 24 Sep 2007




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Notarial Record
Book M Page 368
January 14, 1851



Be it remembered that on the day of the date hereof before me John C. White the recorder in and for
the Parish of East
Feliciana state of Louisiana duly commissioned and sworn and by law vested with authority to exercise
all the powers and
perform all the duties that appertain to public notaries in general and in presence of the witnesses
herein after named and
under signed personally came and appeared at my office Mr. William H. Cobb residing in said parish of
East Feliciana of the
first part who declared that he had sold and by these presents doth sell, assign, transfer, release,
convey and deliver
with all legal warranties and subrogation unto Mr. Clinton Allen, resident of the parish of Livingston
in said state of
Louisiana (here present accepting and purchasing for himself his heirs and assigns and waiving the
certificate of mortgage
required by article 3325 of the civil code of the state of Louisiana) the following property to wit: A
certain negro woman
named Ellen aged 17 years and her child boy Bill aged one year both slaves for life and the bonafide
property of him said
William Howell Cobb, and free from the vices and defects known to the state of Louisiana and free from
any liens or
mortgages of any kind.  The present sale is made and accepted for and in consideration of the price
and sum of eight
hundred dollars cash paid by said purchaser in and presence the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged
and a full discharge
and acquittance given in favor of said purchaser.  To have and to hold said slaves Ellen and child
Bill unto the said
Clinton Allen his heirs and assigns to their proper use and benefit forever.  And the said vendor
moreover subrogate said
purchaser to all his rights and actions in property and warranty for him to exercise and enjoy as he
could have done
himself.  In testimony whereof the parties sign hereunto after the reading thereof, in presence of me
said recorder and in
that of C H E White and I W New assisting witnesses this fourteenth day of Jan. eighteen hundred and
fifty one.  And the
witnesses having signed as such with said parties, I said recorder grant these presents under my seal
and signature
official this day of the date last above written.  William H. Cobb, Clinton Allen, Witnesses C H E
White, I W New, J C
White Recorder
Recorded March 6th 1851            Documented 15th Jan.