folder 258: Financial and legal materials, 1790

I John Billips of Mecklingburge County hath bargained Sold & Delivered Geo. Hairston of Henry County Two Negroe Boys, To Witt George & Luke for the Consideration of Ninety Pounds in hand paid by the s^d Hairston, which Negroes I doe hereby Warrant the Tittle from the Just Claim or Demand of any person or persons Whatsoever In Witness I Hereunto Set my Hand & seal this 2^d day of December 1790

John Billips {Seal}

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Andrew Robrtson

Bargain & Sail for 2 Negroes

Billips To Hairston

1790 Sept the 6th Received of Geo. Hairston Ten pounds Cash and a Negroe boy at Thirty pounds being in full For a Certain Tract of Land Which was assign^d to me By Nathaniel Kelley, Containing by Patent Two Hundred and Thirty four acres, & Lying on [..els] Creek

Walter Barnard

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Wm Mitchell Thos [Pitt]

Receipt for Land

Barnard to Hairston

I George Hairston of Henry County doe Promise to Pay Thomas Cooper of S^d County one Waggon & Teame with five Horses, to be under Eight years old & Should we not agrees the Price to be fixed on by Joseph Martin & John Redd, Which Value is to be One Hundred Pounds to be Paid by the first day of October Next Ensuing, wlso Six Negroes three Girls & three Boys to be equal to a Negroe Boy the Property of S^d Cooper, Which Size is at this date to be Taken, by the aforesaid Martin & Redd, & the aforesaid Negroes to be Equal to Said Sam, When Payable, at Fifty Pound Each, also one Hundred pound in Cash, also, one Hundred & Twenty five pounds in Goods in Petersburge at one Hundred, Per Cent, advance, to be paid at or Before the fifteenth day of November Ensuing this date Which Payment Well & Truly to be made & I bind To myself my heirs & in the Final Sum of Twelve Hundred & Fifty pounds of Like Money In Witness I hereunto Set my hand seal this 1th day of March 1790

G[eorge Hairston]

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Joseph Martin John East Tho. Stovall