Name | Age | Color or Race | Sex | Role in document |
---|---|---|---|---|
William Shelton | grantor | |||
Adam Mitchell | grantee | |||
Thill | 27 | Black ("negro") | Male | enslaved |
Know all men by these presents that I William H. Shelton of Pittsylvania County Virginia for and in Consideration of four Hundred and Fifty Dollars to me in hand paid by Adam Mitchel of Guilford County North Carolina the Receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge have this day granted bargained sold and delivered to said Adam Mitchel his Heirs executors administrators or assigns for ever one Negroe Man Slave aged or supposed about twenty seven on their abouts named Thill to him the S. Adam Mitchel his executors administrators or assigns for ever to have and to hold the Right and title of said Slave I do by these presents for ever warrant and defend to him S. Mitchel his heirs and warrant him to the will so far as I know or believe against the Claim or Claims of my self or my heirs are against the Claim of every other person or person whatsoever witness my hand this 2nd day of June eighteen hundred and thirteen.