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Unnamed Mississippi Cook - MS-COOK189

Title: Unnamed Mississippi Cook - MS-COOK189
Identifier: MS-COOK189
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
Source: Vicksburg Daily Whig
Date: January 4, 1855
Trade: Cook
Enslaver: G. D. Mitchell
Home: Mitchell's Residence
events: 4. To be sold by G. D. Mitchell
Transcription: FOR SALE. I WILL offer for sale to the highest bidder, at my late residence, in Warren County, four miles north of Bovina, on Tuesday the 16th day of January, 1855, all my plantation STOCK, consisting of several hundred bushels of Corn, Fodder, Horses, Mules; four yokes of Oxen, Cattle, Hogs; one fine plantation Wagon; Farming Utensils; plantation Bell; Straw Cutter; some Household and Kitchen Furniture, &c. Also, Nine likely NEGROES, Seven of them grown and two children. Among them are a good rough Carpenter and Driver, and a good Cook, Washer and Ironer; the rest No. 1 field hands. TERMS OF SALE.—All sums of $20 and under, cash; over $20 and under $50, credit until the first day of November next, with note and good security. All sums of $50 and over, credit until the first of November next, the purchaser giving an accepted draft on a good Mer-cantile House in Vicksburg or New Orleans, with one additional drawer of draft as security. The whole bearing eight per cent. interest from date. Sale to commence at 11 o'clock, A. M. jan 4 d3w1t G. D. MITCHELL.