| Name | Age | Color or Race | Sex | Role in document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A. A. Scroggs | White | Male | trustee of grantee | |
| L. H. Mosely | White | Male | trustee of grantee | |
| A. Mitchell | White | Male | trustee of grantee | |
| Samuel Wellborn | White | Male | other | |
| Samuel W. Starnes | White | Male | grantor | |
| Mary E. Wellborn | White | Female | grantee | |
| Martha (#1) | 12 | Black ("negro") | Female | enslaved |
| Martha (#2) | 8 | Black ("negro") | Female | enslaved |
| Nancy | 4 | Black ("negro") | Female | enslaved |
. Indenture, Agreement. This document follows up on NC.WIL.R.314.1, where four enslaved people were put into a Trust for the benefit of Mary E. Wellborn. In the current document, Trustee A.A. Scroggs of Wilkes County says that he had to sell one of the enslaved, twelve year-old Martha, to pay debts of Samuel Wellborn. Scroggs cites a Deed in Trust dated September 1852 (NC.WIL.E.313.1?) that allowed him to do this. Since the Trust is now short the value of an enslaved person, Trustees Scroggs of Wilkes County and L.H. Mosely of Williamson County, Tennessee replace Martha with enslaved Nancy, aged four years and Martha, age eight years. The document says these two children have already been “conveyed” to L.H. Mosely in Tennessee. NC.WIL.R.314.1 and NC.WIL.R.438.1 are not consistent: Samuel Wellborn and his financial troubles were not mentioned in the earlier agreement, and Nancy was not part of the original Trust. In any event, three children were the big losers—twelve year-old Martha was sold off to a man in Wilkes County (NC.WIL.R.439.2), and four year-old Nancy and eight year-old Martha were sent hundreds of miles away to Tennessee. This thing was signed April 20, 1853, presented
