"ADMINISTRATORS SALE | BY VIRTUE OF AN ORDER OF SALE GRANTED AT THE DECEMBER TERM 1848 OF THE HONOURABLE PROBATE COURT OF HINDS COUNTY MISSISSIPPI TO THE UNDERSIGNED AS ADMINISTRATOR OF WILLIAM C. DEMOSS DECEASED HE WILL AS SUCH ADMINISTRATOR ON THE 15TH DAY OF JANUARY 1849 AT THE LATE RESIDENCE OF THE LATE WILLIAM C. DEMOSS IN THE TOWN OF RAYMOND IN HINDS COUNTY PROCEED TO SELL ALL OF THE PERSONAL ESTATE OF SAID DECEASED , CONSISTING OF THE FOLLOWING SLAVES, HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE & C. | NEGRO SLAVES - BEDNEY & MINNEY, CHARITY & 2 CHILDREN … [signed] D.M. DANCY ADMR. RAYMOND DECR. 14TH 1848.
Hinds County, MS: 1848. Folio, 8" x 13", blue unlined paper, completely in ink manuscript. Very Good.
In addition to the slaves, the inventory lists many household items, The verso is a sworn statement from C.R. Clifton that he posted notices of the Sale. Attested to and signed by J.T. Aldham as Justice of the Peace. Docketed: "Exhibit B - Administrators Sale/ Filed February 13th, 1849, W.H. Hampton, Clk."
Col. William Campbell Demoss [1790-1845], born in Virginia, owned plantations simultaneously in Madison County, Louisiana, and Hinds County, Mississippi. He was appointed Associate Justice of the Hinds County Court in 1830, elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1833, and was county sheriff. He was a partner in the mercantile firm of A. Coleman & Co. D.M. Dancy was a physician in Raymond, Hinds County, Mississippi. The Clerk of the Probate Court, William H. Hampton, was 2nd Lieutenant with the "Raymond Fencibles," Company G of the First Regiment, Mississippi Rifles, at the Battles of Monterey and Buena Vista during the Mexican American War. Caswell R. Clifton became Judge of the Circuit Court and Clerk of the High Court of Appeals. Item #34983
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