Lawrence Scarborough gives slave Molly to wife Sarah Scarborough: 1829 Claiborne & Union Parish Louisiana Dec 7, 1841 Submitted for the Union Parish Louisiana USGenWeb Archives by T. D. Hudson, 8/2004 ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** Lawrence Scarborough gives slave Molly to wife Sarah Scarborough, 15 Oct 1829 Union Parish Civil Suit #124D Filed in Union Parish Louisiana on 7 Dec 1841 Lawrence Scarborough was born in 1767 in Edgecombe County North Carolina, son of Major James Scarborough who fought in the Battle of Kings Mountain during th eAmerican Revolution. Lawrence was a Baptist minister and farmer. He lived in Burke & Bulloch Counties, Georgia in the 1790s and early 1800s, and then moved quite early to Mississippi Territory. Sometime in the 1820s, he travelled west again to south Arkansas and north Louisiana, living in Claiborne Parish in the 1820s and in what is now western Union Parish (the Camp Creek community) in the 1830s. He died there in October 1846, leaving his widow, Sarah Cann Scarborough, and nineteen surviving children. Although the record below was made in Claiborne Parish, Scarborough apparently had it filed in Union Parish after he moved there. For some unexplained reason, the original paper was filed with the civil suits. This is certainly one of the older original records in the Union Parish Courthouse today. ================================================================================== TRANSCRIPTION OF ORIGINAL RECORD FOLLOWS ================================================================================== Lawrence Scarborough To Sarah Scarborough his wife #124-D Filed December 7th 1841 and duly recorded in my office in the Parish of Union State of Louisiana in Notarial Book AA, Folio 134 & 135. Given under my hand and seal of Office this Dec 7 1841 John Taylor Parish Judge ================================================================================== State of Louisiana Paris of Claiborne Be it remembered that on this fifteenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine before me the undersigned Parish Judge in and for the Parish of Claiborne, Personally came and appeared Lawrence Scarborough of said Parish who declared that he has this day bargained sold and delivered and by these presents does now bargain and sell and deliver a negro woman slave aged about fiftey [sic] years named Molly guaranteed as a slave for life and from all the vices and defects, anticipated by law an improvment on public land situated on the loutre a stock of cattle hogs and horses and all his house hold furniture, to have and to hold the same from this date to Sarah Scarborough wife of him the said vendor, her hairs [sic] and assigns for ever. The above sale is made for and in consideration of the following to wit: In order to replace certain dotal effects of said Sarah which have been alienated the said Lawrence has sold and by these presents does sell deliver and forever alienate the said property above mentioned to his aforesaid wife Sarah her heirs and assigns for ever. Said slave Molly is declared to be free from all mortgages and incumbrances whatsoever as appears by the following certificte. I do hereby certify that no mortgage exist on my records against the negro slave Molly belonging to Lawrence Scarborough. Done and passed before me the undersigned Judge at the Town of Russelville the Parish afore said this fifteenth October 1829 in presents of Robert L. Killgore and Silas Scarborough witnesses. signed L. Scarborough Chichester Chaplin Parish Judge Parish of Claiborne ================================================================================== Note: In this record Lawrence Scarborough this record was filed in Claiborne Parish, clearly the "loutre" refers to Bayou D'Loutre in Union Parish. This proves that by October 1829, Lawrence had settled near Bayou D'Loutre in Union Parish. This makes him one of the earliest white men to settle in this region. ###########################################################