The Purchase and Death of a Slave named Lucy ______________________________________________ USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor, OR the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. --------------------------------------------------------------- Compiled by Will Snipes --------------------------------------------------------------- Received of Robert D. Wade a note drawn by W. W. Hall dated 21st. April, 1838 & payable the 1st. day of March 1839 for Two Hundred Dollars & also One hundred Dollars in cash it bring infull for the purchase money for a certain negro woman named Lucy aged about thirty five years the right & Title I warrant but do not warrant any soundness whatever as I sell her as being unsound & said knows has examined her to his satisfaction & Takes her as he finds her Witness my hand & Seal this 9th. Jany 1839 Thomas F Poindexter ____________________________________ March 4th. 1858 Lucy departed this life on Thursday Night about ten o'clock In the Night aged Sixty year of age as good and (h)onest nigero woman as ever Live Belonging to me Anderson Snipes *********************************************************************