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State of Alabama
Shelby County
Know all men by these
presents that we
Ben Z. Cross & Barthena Ozley (late Barthena
Cost) administrator & administratrix
of the Estate of Eli Cost decd. by virtue
of a order to us Granted by W.G.Bowden
Judge of the a fore said county Cort an the authorising
us to sell all the Estate of Eli Cost said decedent which was
unsold did on the 1st day of December 1846
offer for sale at publick Auction to the highest
bidder a negro man named Jefferson a slave
a bout nineteen years old which negro was
purchased by John Cost by the Consent of his
Guardian T.H.Brasier he being the highest
& best bidder for the same sum at seven hundred
& sixty six Dollars witness our hands & thios
24th December 1846
Z.Cross a.d.m
Barthena [her mark] Ozley