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[ENSLAVEMENT]. Manuscript appraisal of an enslaved girl named Juda. Union Co., AR, 1856.
Estimate: $300-$500
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$300
Timed Auction
American Historical Ephemera & Photography
Location
Cincinnati
Description

[ENSLAVEMENT]. Manuscript appraisal of an enslaved girl named Juda. Union Co., AR, 1856.


One page, 7 5/8 x 12 5/8 in. Verso with circuit court clerk's certification and Union Circuit Court seal affixed at left.

"We...having been called on by Marshall Parnell to appraise a certain negro girl named Juda of dark complexion and aged about thirteen or fourteen years at this present time...do depose and say that said girl at the time she came to the possession of the said Parnell, to wit, about January A. D. 1855 was worth the sum of five hundred dollars Dollars [sic] and no more to the best of our judgment, belief & understanding - from all that we can see and all that we know of said girl so help us God."

Signed and sworn before a Justice of the Peace, 4 August 1856.

Marshall Parnell enlisted in the CSA on or around 1 June 1862 as a sergeant, and mustered into Company I, 37th Arkansas Infantry Regiment that same day. Other details about his service were not listed in HDS.


Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Ephemeral Americana and Historical Documents


This lot is located in Cincinnati.

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Freeman's I Hindman strives to describe historic materials in a manner that is respectful to all communities, providing descriptive contexts for objects where possible. The nature of historical ephemera is such that some material may represent positions, language, values, and stereotypes that are not consistent with the current values and practices at Freeman's I Hindman.
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