Union County Louisiana Archives Court.....Bass, Uriah July 8, 1856
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Vickie Bass bassv@yahoo.com July 31, 2011, 3:00 am

Source: Book H, P 115
Written: July 8, 1856
Recorded: July 9, 1856

State of Louisiana But remembered that by virtue of a writ of 
Parish of Union      Execution issued out of the 12th District 
                     Court in and for the Parish of Union in the suit of
  Thomas Brantley Admin.vs Elizabeth Brantley bearing claim of the 11th day of 
June 1856 and to me directed. I, A.M.Calloway, Sheriff of said parish of Union 
by virtue by virtue of said writ of fi.fa, did seize and take possession of a 
certain negro man named Henry,(24)of yellow complexion belonging to defendant 
after having advertised the said negro for thirty days according to law and 
after having said property appraised by title seven appraisers who appraised 
said Negro to be worth Twelve hundred Dollars after having read the 
advertisement and certificate of mortgage furnished me from the Recorder. I 
offered said Negro for sale on the first Saturday in July A.D. 1856 for cash 
with the benefit of appraisements and after crying the same for some time 
Uriah Bass became the purchaser of said Negro Henry for and in consideration 
of the sum of Twelve hundred Dollars and he being the last and highest bidder.
     Wherefore I do hereby grant, sell, adjudicate, and deliver unto Uriah 
Bass said Negro Henry all the rights title and interest which the said 
Elizabeth Brantley has to said Negro to have and to hold to said Uriah Bass, 
his heirs and assigns forever in faith whereof I have this day afixed my name 
hereto on this eighth day of July A.D. 1856
attest                                           A.M. Calloway Sheriff

S.O. Larche, A.A Carr
True Record July 9th 1856 Wm C. Smith Recorder                  

Additional Comments:
On the actual copy of the document the date appears to be 1836 and not 1856 
but after performing some research on the Bass family's migration to Union 
Parish from Perry County Alabama and reading the book "Some Slaveholders and 
Their Slaves Union Parish, Louisiana 1839-1865" I have concluded that the 
author of the original record must have written his five (5) to be similiar to 
a three (3). Uriah Bass was still living in Perry County Alabama according to 
the 1830 and 1840 census of the State of Alabama in 1836. According to Louisa 
George Tomkins's (daughter of Elias George and Ann Bass, Uriah Bass's sister) 
memoirs the Bass family migrated from Perry County Alabama town of Marion in 
1848 and moved to Union Parish Louisiana and founded the small village of 
Marion named for Francis Marion "The Swamp Fox." Uriah Bass appears in the 
1850 census of Union Parish Louisiana.

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