Name | Age | Color or Race | Sex | Role in document |
---|---|---|---|---|
Thomas W. McNiel | White | Male | trustee of grantor | |
James Calloway | White | Male | other | |
(not given) Holeman | White | Male | other | |
A. G. Whittington | White | Male | other | |
"Scroggs & Hackett" | White | Unknown | other | |
M. S. Stokes | White | Male | other | |
William Whittington | White | Male | other | |
Elijah Nicholls | White | Male | other | |
Susannah Nicholls | White | Female | grantor | |
Lear | Black ("negro") | Female | enslaved | |
Rufus | Black ("negro") | Male | enslaved | |
Milly | Black ("negro") | Female | enslaved |
Deed In Trust. Susannah Nicholls, widow of Elijah Nicholls, has several outstanding debts, including one for which there is “a judgment taken”, and a couple where she doesn’t know the due dates or amounts. To secure payment of the debts, she puts in Trust with Thomas W. McNiel a long list of property, starting with livestock, moving on to furniture, then “her Dower rights in the Lands of her deceased husband Elijah Nicholls and also her right and interest in three Negros Slaves for life, one Woman named Lear aged about thirty five years old, & her two children names as follows Rufus aged about ten years old Milly aged about six years old…” followed by her standing crops of corn, wheat, rye, oats. I will log the names of the six creditors. If Susannah Nicholls does not pay the debts by June 1, 1860, Trustee McNiel is instructed to sell the enslaved and other property, pay the debts, and return any surplus to Susanna N. No further information about Lear, Rufus and Milly or their relationships. The document was signed, presented in Court and registered June 4, 1859.