James
- Name
- James
- Sex
- Male
- Record(s) Seen In
- Will Book 1-1: 1839-1885
- Inventory, Appraisements, and Sales Book 1
- Confederate Slave Payrolls
- Page and Line Number
- IAS 1: PP. 466
- Date(s) Seen in Records
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Will Book 1: April 1849
IAS 1: December 9, 1848
CSP: December 1862-January 1863 - Name of Enslaver
- Frances A. Deatin
- Bequeathed to
- John Deaton
- Appraised Alongside
- Willed and appraised alongside the following individuals.
- Peggy
- Harriett
- Priscilla
- Mariah
- Patience
- Blanch
- Mary
- William
- Henry
- Amelia
- Additional Information
- In the sale bill dated December 9, 1848 it was said that James should remain "in possession" of Frances Deatin's husband John. Mariah and the other enslaved people valued alongside her were "to be hired out for a term of years until their hire shall pay of debt due to the estate of John Foster decd. amounting to five hundred dollars more or less."
- Other enslaved people listed alongside James in the December 9 sale bill are Mariah, Patience, Henry, Blanch, Priscilla, Harriet, Peggy, Mary, and "their future increases," which is to say their future children and their children's children.
- Bequeathed to Frances Deaton's husband in April of 1849. They were "to be hired out to others to pay off the Deaton family's debt of $650, the enslaved individuals are to be freed after" the debt was paid. Once freed they were to be set up with jobs locally and able to keep their earnings, living on the family land until they had enough funds to relocate to a free state. They had the option to decline this offer and pick another "master" or "mistress." Though the wording may have seemed simple, the process for the manumission of enslaved individuals was a more complicated process.
- James labored for 28 days at a pay rate of $16.00 per month. His enslaver, Frances A. Deaton, received $14.93 for the work completed by James.
Part of James