July 8, 1845 from the Sandy River Church
The Hemp Lawn Farm on the Benson Pike in Shelbyville, Kentucky has a graveyard marked with simple stones. On the farm were buried family members, slaves and civil war soldiers.
Josiah Harding Magruder, Esq. owner of the Hemp Lawn Farm
Bill of Sale: in consideration of a negro boy named Gringo … to the following named Slaves viz a woman named Kizziah about twenty nine years of age also a small girl named Hannah two years of age
Rent-a-Slave: the interest on $504. is payment for the services of the negro for the time in May…
… a negro boy named Jim, complexion black, about fourteen years of age & hereby warrant said boy Jim to be a slave for life…
“darkies”
If I could persuade a whole hundred of you to leave your darkies and come out here I should be quite made up
My will and desire is that my land and negroes should be kept together for the purpose of paying my debts and the support of those that are with me
Cris Ericson http://crisericson.com ru18vote@gmail.com
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