| Name | Age | Color or Race | Sex | Role in document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Hanes | Male | other | ||
| Sheriff Solomon Cherry | Male | grantor | ||
| Christopher Clark | Male | grantee | ||
| Tobey Toby | Black ("negro") | Male | enslaved |
Bill of Sale, public sale by Sheriff. John Hanes, “alias James Hall” had died, and the Insurance Company of the United States obtained an Attachment of part of his estate, through the Superior Court in Edenton, NC, April 1796. Some of the property: “Sundry Goods of the Defendant in the possession of Christopher Clark”, were considered perishable, and had already been seized by Sheriff Solomon Cherry and sold. Remaining was “a certain Negro man Slave called Tobey”, Sheriff Cherry “exposed him to sale”, and Christopher Clark was the high bidder, at forty nine pounds. No further information in the document about Toby or his relationships, and there’s probably more to the story. The sale was on June 3, 1796, and that’s the date I’ll log. The document is dated November 13, 1796 and was presented in Court November 1796.
