Morgan-VA-1854

Slave Sales

To an order of the court of Fauquier County, Va of the 25th of Dec. 1854, to allot the negroes belonging to the estate of Joseph Morgan deceased, among the distributees entitled there-to. We the undersigned Commissioners having first been formally sworn to execute the said order, have done so as follows (viz)

In lot no 1--we have put Caroline, Hannah, and child, Jane, Celia, Milly, Elvina, Sarah, Francis and boy, one year old, Mary, George, Eli, Rosetta, Richard, Henry, Jack, Daisy, Martin, Louisa, Phill, Stephen, Elias, Silas, Kizzy, and Milly the first two last being useless and have allotted the same to William S. Colbert.

In lot 2--We have Elizabeth, Sophy, Davy, Howard, Emily, and child Anne, William Henry, Gus, Milly, and Sally, Fanny, John, Baily, Nelson, Arthur, George, Pendleton, Lewis, Frank, Albert, Raleigh (15 years), Maria, Phillis, and Delphine, the last two being useless and have allotted the same to the representatives of Charles Morgan dec.

Source: Book -- The Bradfords of Virginia During the Revolutionary War and Their Kin, pg 46.

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