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1846 March.
In 1840 the property of A and F. A. Johns being Mortgaged to Martin,
Pleasants &co. of New Orleans, for the sum of about eighteen
thousand dollars - the mortgage was closed. I paid the creditors
about eleven thousand dollars and became responsible for the seven
thousand - & I purchased the property - consisting of about
35 negroes & 400 acres of land to secure myself -- I subsequently
sold the land & paid $4000.00 on the debt - which leaves about
$3000.00 now due. This claim was transfered by Martin Pleasant
& co, to the Union Bank of Ten, who now hold it. It
has always been my intention, when all of the above debt was paid,
to make a deed of gift of all the negroes remaining To A. Johns
wife & children except the following eighteen -- Dennis, Mason,
William, Crecy, Dolly, George, Lydia, Catherine, Archer, Mary,
Jackson, Ally, Mima, John, Booker, Syd, Henry, Cely --
These negroes entended for Mary Johns &
her children I sold in Jany last to Dabney M. Whart[on] for $12.000.00
to be paid in six annual payments of two thousand each -- secured
by mortgage on that property & to carry out my original intention
towards Mary Johns & her children in February
last at my Brother in the state of La. I wrote my last will &
testament bequeathing to Mary Johns & her children the notes
I hold against D. M. Wharton, subgect to the debt of $3000.00
due the Bank -- These notes I left in the hands of my Bro -- &
a record of the sale & mortgage is made in the clerk's office
of Madison Parish, La.
I also sold to D. M. Wharton Negro woman Lydia
& 3 children & negro woman Crecy for the $1500.00 -- $200
paid in hand & for the balance he executed 2 notes to me of
$650. each payable in one & two years -- secured by Mortgage
in said negroes. I also hire to him 2 negroes -- William
& Dolly for $175.00 per year --
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Source: Handwritten original, private collection,
Chambless family. Transcribed to softcopy by Susan D. Chambless,
March 15, 1999.
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