Henry-Talberd-Chick-SC-Mortgage-1857

Greenville County, South Carolina  (Abstract)
Volume Y, pg. 135
Mortgage

Whereas, We, John T. HENRY and Franklin TALBERD, are ... justly indebted to Pettis W. CHICK and Reubin S. Chick of Union District in the amount of $15,000 payable on or before 1 January next with interest from 1 January 1857. We therefore mortgage to Pettus W. CHICK and Reubin S. CHICK the following slave(s), to wit,
... STEPHEN, a capenter and engineer about 40 years old,
... DIANA, a washer and ironer and child's muse about 38-40 years old,
... CHARLOTTE about 12-13 years old,
... JOHN, a carpenter about 32-33 years old,
... CHARLES, a house servant about 40 years old,
... GRACE about 23-24 years old and
... MATILDA about 6-7 years old, all property of Franklin TALBERT and

... ROBERT, a carpenter about 50,
... GRACE a cook about 50,
... ROSE, a house servant about 20,
... JAMES about 4 and
... JOHN a bricklayer about 25, all the property of John T. HENRY,
also, household and kitchen furniture sold by P.W. CHICK and R.S. CHICK with the Chick Springs Hotel ...

Nevertheless, if We, the sd John T. HENRY and Franklin TALBERD shall pay ... the sum of $15,000 on or before the due date, this mortgage shall be cancelled.

1 July 1857			(S) Franklin TALBIRD
				      John T. HENRY

Witnesses: Thomas M. Cox, Jesse Hawkins, Henry C. Markley, NP and Mag.Ex.Off.

Recd  Date  7 September 1857

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