1849 Bill of Sale for Chenango Plantation to William Sharpe

Sold through Ebay on June 8, 2003

Item # 2175936386

Description:
1849 Sale of Chenango Plantation
Chenango Plantation
Is Sold - With Its 61 Named Slaves!
Once A Base For Slave Smuggling

1849 Sale of The Infamous Chenango Plantation and Its Slaves To Captain William Sharpe of Terry's Texas Rangers (CSA Eighth Texas Cavalry)
Manuscript Document, being a Bill of Sale for a huge tract of land - the Chenango Plantation - and its 61-plus slaves. 4 pages, the first three measuring 6.5” x 11”, the fourth 6.5” x 4”. Choice Extremely Fine. Here Nathaniel A. Ware - author, ex-acting Governor of Mississippi, land speculator and co-founder of Waco - sells to William Sharpe, for $29,000, the roughly 3,000 acres which comprised the Chenango Plantation. With the land came its 61 named slaves: Harry, Brancola, Bob, Aida, Ellick, George, Slater, Toney, Cudjo, Coco, Dick, Adelaqua, Tom, Daniel, Lewis, Jim, Charles, Rose, Eliza, Anthony, Ega, John, Frank, Jan, Judy, Tara, Carolyn, Julian, Sally, Malinda, Besha, Nancy, Love, Delta, Jena, Galena, Love. Malinda, Mary, Marta, David, Lucinda, Abbe, Henry, Sabrine, Polly, Ceasar, Aliza, Bill, Keto, Jack, Emmeline, Alice, Lewis, Martha, Jane, Mary, Sam, Sally, William - and all of their children.

This detailed document traces the ownership of the Chenango Plantation from the original Mexican land grant given to Texas patriot William Harris to S. Richardson and Joshua Abbott to the soldier Benjamin Fort Smith to the legislator James Love to the lawyers and land agents who held the property until Nathaniel Ware bought it - and duly sold it to Sharpe. Missing from this narration, however, are the names of owner Monroe Edwards and his partner, Christopher Dart, who used the cotton and sugarcane plantation as a base for smuggling hundreds of slaves from Cuba to Texas.

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Early American Auctions

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