| Name | Age | Color or Race | Sex | Role in document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyce Richards | Female | grantor | ||
| W. Pate Richards | Male | grantee | ||
| Joe | 7 | Black ("negro") | Male | enslaved |
Bill of Sale. Joyce Richards sells to her son W. Pate Richards “…a Negro boy about seven years old named Joe for the sum of two hundred and twenty five dollars…”. No further information about Joe or his relationships. The document was signed August 10, 1839, presented in Court August 1839 and registered September 7, 1839. (Abstractor’s note: Davidson County Deed Books 6 and 7 were microfilmed By the North Carolina Dept. of Archives and History, on one roll of microfilm (December 9, 1966). The “roll” has internal identification number 1575, and has Family Search identification number 007539232. Book 6 pages 1-543 are on microfilm images 8-297, and Book 7 pages 1-564 are on microfilm images 302-600. The current document starts on image 367, in the Book 7 section.)
