Carroll-Dyer County TN Archives Deed.....MCDONALD, John - ROCHELLE, Cynthia May 21, 1842
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Written: May 21, 1842
Recorded: May 24, 1842

Register of Deeds Office
Carroll Co., TN
Vol. E, p. 357-358
Cynthia ROCHELLE of Carroll Co., TN to John McDONALD of Carroll Co., TN-4 Negro
Slaves: TAMER, JIM, 
JACK, CAR.
21 May 1842

Know all men by these presents that I, Cynthia ROCHELLE of the State of Tennessee
and County of Carroll 
have this day bargained and sold and by these presents do bargain sell and convey to
John MCDONALD of 
the County and State aforesaid four Negro Slaves, one woman named TAMAR, aged 28
years, one boy named 
JIM, aged 8 years and one boy named JACK aged 4 years & one boy CAR? aged 2 (marked
out) years. To 
have and to hold to him the said MCDONALD forever and I do further covenant with the
said MCDONALD that 
I have a good right to the said Slaves and that the same are unencumbered and Slaves
for life and are sound 
both in body and mind. But this Bill of Sale is made for the following use and trust
and for no other purpose 
that is to say I am indebted to John W. ROGERS, of the county of Dyer and State of
Tennessee by two 
Several? notes in the Sum of five hundred Eighty five dollars. One note of three
hundred and seventy four 
dollars bearing date 21st January 1842, and due one day after date and the other for
two hundred and eleven 
dollars bearing date the 19th May 1842 and due on day after date and the said John
W. ROGERS is willing to 
indulge me Six Months longer and being desirous to secure the said ROGERS have made
this deed to said 
MCDONALD now if I should pay the said debt at the time aforesaid then this Bill of
sale to be void, But if I 
should not then the said John MCDONALD as trustee after giving twenty days notice in
writing at the Court 
house door in the Town of Huntingdon and two other public places in said County may
expose the said 
Negroes to public sale for cash and appropriated the proceeds first to the payment
of the necessary 
expenses and cost. Secondly to the satisfaction of said debt and thirdly to pay the
balance if any there be to 
me. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 21st day
of May 1842.
Cynthia ROCHELLE (Seal)

Test:
John DAUGHTERY
John T. ROCHELLE

State of Tennessee
Carroll County
Personally appeared before me Young W. ALLEN, Clerk of the County Court of said
County , John 
DAUGHTERLY and John T. ROCHELLE and after being sworn say this that they are
personally acquainted with 
Cynthia ROCHEL and that she acknowledged that she signed the within Deed of Trust
for the purposes 
therein set forth and on the day it bears date. Given under my hand at Office this
23rd of May 1842.
Y. W. ALLEN, Clk.

Came to hand 3 O’clock. P.M. 23rd May 1842 and Registered this 24th day of May
1842.
Witness: Jno. K. CLARK, Register of Carroll County

Additional Comments:
Cynthia ROCHELLE sells 4 Slaves to John MCDONALD-1 woman TAMAR, 1 boy JIM, 1 boy
JACK, 1 boy CAR.
(Cynthia ROCHELLE was the daughter of James ROCHELLE & Margaret EVANS of Fairfield
Co., SC- she 
married her 1st cousin Allen ROCHELLE, son of Capt. John ROCHELLE & Patience THOMAS,
who married in 
Wake Co., NC & moved to Richland Co., SC.)


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