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Orator now recollects, payable to one John Loudden
on the first day of June after date. The other note
for the sum of ninety 29/100 dollars payable to Sprev-
ell[?] & Bonner on the first day of March one thou-
sand eight hundred and forty three & dated the sev-
enth day of January one thousand eight hun-
dred and forty two.

The said Turnipseed had also paid
two sums for orator, both payments made on the
twenty second day of May one thousand eight hundred
and forty three, one sum of one hundred and forty seven
25/100 dollars paid to one P.D. Sanders a constable who
had executions against orator, and the other sum of
one hundred and forty five 69/100 dollars paid to Bush
& Brothers, that the amount of sd two notes, and the sd
two sums so paid as afd is the pretended consideration
specified in sd bill of sale, and the same was intended
to secure the payment of the said amount, and not as
the same purports to be an absolute bill of sale of
sd slave - that sd slave was not delivered to sd Turnip-
seed but still remains in the possession of sd orator

XI. Orator further sheweth that on the second day of
March one thousand eight hundred and forty four the day
after the sd note for eight hundred and eighty eight 99/100
dollars fell due, the sd Turnipseed for the purpose of
continuing the usurious interest on the said sum so
claimed to be due as afd and also on the sum named in
the bill of sale for the slave York and under the like assuran-
ces as afd. induced orator to give him another sealed note
for the sum of nine hundred and fifty six 99/100 dollars pur-
porting to be for the hire of twenty six negroes men women
and children being the negroes afd & the sd negro York, paya-
ble to the sd. Turnipseed or bearer on the first day of March