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Title
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Unnamed Mississippi Blacksmith - MS-BLA53
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Identifier
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MS-BLA53
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Subject
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African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
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Source
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Vicksburg Daily Whig
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Date
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December 5, 1859
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Trade
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Blacksmith
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Enslaver
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Hyde & Company
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Home
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Hyde & Company Auction House, No. 9 Washington St.
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events
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4. To be sold by Hyde & Company
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Notes
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Multiple, number not specified but 125 people being sold total
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Transcription
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Auction Sale of Negroes ! The Largest Sale of the Season! 125 No. 1 Negroes! By HYDE & COMPANY, 9 Washington street. ON THURSDAY, JANUARY 12th, we will sell at our Auction House, No. 9 Washington street, Vicksburg, Miss., 125 FINE NEGROES, at public auction, consisting of Field Hands, Drivers, Teamsters, Blacksmiths, Carpenters, House Ser-vants, Seamstresses, Cooks, Washers and Ironers, named as follows (ages given on the stand, when buyers can judge of the correctness of each Negro's age being correctly given): Nancy, Cephus, 7 yrs., Tom, 3 Jim Potts, Horace, 12 yrs, Bety, Walter, 1 yr, Washington, Casurs, Lotty, Nanarcly, Amanda, Sally, 3 yrs, Ella, 3 yrs, George, George Taylor, Ellen, Betty, 8 yrs, Georgiana, Ned, John, R Esquire, R Eliza, Amelian, 8 yrs, Betsy, 2 yrs, Peter, May, Patrick, George, Katty, Hatter, Richard, Henry William, Nathan, Margrett, John Robert, Lavinia, Claiborne, Anay, Charles, John, Kissiah, Little Jack, Catherine, Mary, 5 years. Nig, Lizzy, Mahalla, Levi, Gallie, Oliver John, Dennis, Elizabeth, John, 12 years, Ella, 10 years, Willie, 8 years, Rosa, 5 years, Charles, 2 years, Wilson, Laura, Agga, Jasper, Hannah, Pompey, Matilda, Amelia, Isreal, Eliza, Matilda, R Fenstill, Jessee, Rachel, Caroline, R Earnest, Dick, Lizzy, Bill, Phillis, Jim, Moaning, Ben, Big Joe, John, Jane, Eliza, Oliver, Lucy, Anderson, Ann, Adolphus, Green, William, Sarah, California, Jack, Harrison, Julia, Prince, Sandy, Eggne, Lewis, Sarah, Dive, 10 years, Adolphus, 8 years, Bristers, Bamel, Monk, Kizziah, Uncle Daniel, Dick, Polly, Martha Ann, Tom, Lucinda, Matt, Jefferson, Fannie, Marie, Webster, Emeline. The terms of the sale are cash, or 9 or 12 months acceptance, with 8 per cent. added. Full guarantees given. Title indisputable, and the negroes are ALL ACCLIMATED, and fully un-derstand the business of cotton growing. Sale positive as above. HYDE & COMPANY, 9 Washington Street, Vicksburg, Miss. dec5
