Tennessee Manuscript Receipt for a Slave Purchase

Monroe County, September 29, 1832, one page with docketing, reading, in part: "Received of Isaac Jarratt Three Hundred and fifty Dollars in full payment of a negro Boy names Joshua aged about thirteen years the title to which negro I will warrant and defend against the claim of all persons whatever...."

Private Collection of a Gentleman, Southern MS

Uneven wedge; tiny splits at ends of folds; overall good condition.