[Agreement for sale of Hercules, an enslaved boy] (open access)

[Agreement for sale of Hercules, an enslaved boy]

An agreement for the sale of Hercules, an enslaved boy who was "eleven or twelve years old." Hercules was sold by enslaver Ephraim M. Guthrie to enslaver Thomas Graham. The agreement names Hercules a "slave for life."
Date: September 29, 1847
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Bill of sale for purchase of slave by E.M. Pease] (open access)

[Bill of sale for purchase of slave by E.M. Pease]

A bill of sale for the purchase by E.M. Pease of a slave named Tim or Tom.
Date: September 1, 1849
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Note secured by deed of trust on slaves] (open access)

[Note secured by deed of trust on slaves]

A note secured “by deed of trust on negroes.”
Date: September 18, 1849
Creator: Pease, Elisha Marshall
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Receipt for transportation of slaves] (open access)

[Receipt for transportation of slaves]

A receipt for the transportation of "the negro girl Emily and child belonging to Hon. E.M. Pease."
Date: September 15, 1853
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Funeral receipt] (open access)

[Funeral receipt]

A receipt for the "funeral of [E.M. Pease’s] child," Anne Marshall Pease.
Date: September 19, 1862
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Post-Civil-War loyalty oath signed by Judge J.B.M. McFarland] (open access)

[Post-Civil-War loyalty oath signed by Judge J.B.M. McFarland]

A document in which J.B.M. McFarland, a judge of the first judicial district, swears that he “neither sought nor accepted, nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatsoever, under any authority or pretended authority in hostility to the United States”; a handwritten explanation follows.
Date: September 24, 1867
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History