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(abstract from original copy of letter, source compliments of Laura Leigh)
A contract written by Charles Kenney in 1859 selling an enslaved person, Laura, to his son Samuel P Kenney for $5. Laura is to be lent to Samuel P. Kenney’s sister Sarah (Kenney) Wages, wife of Andrew Jackson, Clark County, Georgia “for her sole and personal use.” At the time of writing Laura was “one negro girl of dark complexion about twelve years old named Laura. "And free from any debt liabilities or contracts of her personal or any future husbands during her natural life and at her death to go and rest in her lineal descendants share and share a like and in default of any lineal descendants living at her death then and in that case the said negro girl with her increases to return to me or my estate or my lineal descendants and if there are none, to my heirs in general.
To have and hold to said Samuel P. Kenny his Executors and Administrators upon the (?) and the trusts foresaid and upon limitations aforesaid.
- Signed,
- K P Rooks
- W G Delony, Clark County, Georgia."
"I, Samuel P Kenny, do here by agree and consent to accept and carry out in good faith the above trusts. December 20, 1859.
- Signed: Samuel P Kenny
- Witness: (the writing is hard to read)"
