JIM HENDRICKS' FREE PAPERS

Lauderdale County, Alabama
Deed Book 12, p. 401

Jim Hendricks Free Papers

The State of Alabama }    Personally appeared before the Subscriber a justice of
Lauderdale County     }    the Peace in and for the County & state aforesaid William M. Jackson of lawful age & to me personally Known and makes oath that a negro boy named Jim Hendricks was Sold on the fourteenth of February in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and forty eight. Whereas he was bought by James Jackson, as agent for the boy Jim Hendricks, and the Said Jim Hendricks has paid in full the amount of three hundred dollars for which he was sold. Sworn to & Subscribed before me this 23rd of Decr. 1848

Joseph Bigger J Peace                                                   Wm. M. Jackson

Recorded 23rd Decr 1848

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