| Description: |
The probate record for Jacob Warrick, 1811 is in Box 3 of the probate records archive at the Knox County Public Library’s McGrady-Brockman House. On the inventory sheet the following slaves were listed with their prices for purchase at the sale: 1 negro man “Peter” $200.00, 1 negro woman “Sucky” $120.00, Boys, “Ben and Charles” $200.00, Lewis, $250.00; Moses, $170.00 and girl Becky, $100.00. On the sale bill is listed the purchasers and the amounts each paid: Augustus Tuga (Tougaw, Tougas) negro woman and young child $402; John Warrick, 1 negro boy $104; Augustus Tuga, 1 negro man, $402; Jane Warrick, 1 negro girl, $250.00; David Robb, 1 negro boy, $330.00; David Robb, 1 negro boy, $299.99. In Warrick’s will the said “My negroes to be sold and the money laid out in land for my children”. |
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| Origin: | 1811 |
| Contributor(s): |
Warrick, Jacob; Peter; Sucky; Ben; Charles; Lewis; Moses; Becky; Tougaw, Agustus; Tougas, Augustus; Tuga, Augustus; Robb, David; Warrick, Jane; Warrick, John; |
| Source: |
http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/kcpl/id/44654 |
| Collection: |
Knox County Public Library |
| Rights: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/ |
| Copyright: |
No Copyright - United States |
| Geography: |
Vincennes, Knox County, Indiana, United States |
| Subjects: |
Black people -- America -- History African Americans -- History Black people -- History Slave records Slave labor Slavery Slaveholders Enslaved women Enslaved men Slavery -- Law and legislation Indentured servants Indiana -- Northwest Indiana -- History Vincennes (Ind.) Knox County (Ind.) |
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