Rober(t)son-NC-Slave Sales-1859

Roberson to Ray Slave Sale - Ashe Co., NC

Here is another Bill of Sale from Ashe County, NC Deed Books 
(I post one every time I locate one while rummaging at the Courthouse). 

Deed Book T, page 494
Bill of Sale from John T. Robertson to James Ray 21 October 1858
Received of James Ray Senr $950.00 full payment for a Negro Man named Bob age 22 years, which Negro I warrant to be sound and sensible and a Slave for life.

signed John T. Roberson (sic)
witness: Hilton Ray

proved 28 Feb. 1859
registered 1 March 1859

(Please post this record anywhere on the internet that it might be helpful. Thanks.)
Sandra Lake Lassen
Certified Genealogical Records Specialist
1499 Lakeside Drive, West Jefferson, NC 28694 
"Researching in Ashe, Wilkes, Watauga & Alleghany Cos., NC & in Grayson Co., VA - the heart o' the Blue Ridge Mountains"

Contributed by: slassen@InfoAve.Net (Sandra Lassen