Item #42303 THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM COX OF WASHINGTON, D. C., BY HIS EXECUTOR MARY ANN COX, CONVEYS OWNERSHIP OF THE "SLAVE NAMED PETER, NOW ABOUT TWENTY EIGHT YEARS OF AGE AND A SLAVE FOR LIFE," TO WILLIAM CLARK OF WASHINGTON, D. C. Release of Mortgage on a. Washington D. C. Slave.
THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM COX OF WASHINGTON, D. C., BY HIS EXECUTOR MARY ANN COX, CONVEYS OWNERSHIP OF THE "SLAVE NAMED PETER, NOW ABOUT TWENTY EIGHT YEARS OF AGE AND A SLAVE FOR LIFE," TO WILLIAM CLARK OF WASHINGTON, D. C.
THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM COX OF WASHINGTON, D. C., BY HIS EXECUTOR MARY ANN COX, CONVEYS OWNERSHIP OF THE "SLAVE NAMED PETER, NOW ABOUT TWENTY EIGHT YEARS OF AGE AND A SLAVE FOR LIFE," TO WILLIAM CLARK OF WASHINGTON, D. C.
THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM COX OF WASHINGTON, D. C., BY HIS EXECUTOR MARY ANN COX, CONVEYS OWNERSHIP OF THE "SLAVE NAMED PETER, NOW ABOUT TWENTY EIGHT YEARS OF AGE AND A SLAVE FOR LIFE," TO WILLIAM CLARK OF WASHINGTON, D. C.
THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM COX OF WASHINGTON, D. C., BY HIS EXECUTOR MARY ANN COX, CONVEYS OWNERSHIP OF THE "SLAVE NAMED PETER, NOW ABOUT TWENTY EIGHT YEARS OF AGE AND A SLAVE FOR LIFE," TO WILLIAM CLARK OF WASHINGTON, D. C.
THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM COX OF WASHINGTON, D. C., BY HIS EXECUTOR MARY ANN COX, CONVEYS OWNERSHIP OF THE "SLAVE NAMED PETER, NOW ABOUT TWENTY EIGHT YEARS OF AGE AND A SLAVE FOR LIFE," TO WILLIAM CLARK OF WASHINGTON, D. C.
THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM COX OF WASHINGTON, D. C., BY HIS EXECUTOR MARY ANN COX, CONVEYS OWNERSHIP OF THE "SLAVE NAMED PETER, NOW ABOUT TWENTY EIGHT YEARS OF AGE AND A SLAVE FOR LIFE," TO WILLIAM CLARK OF WASHINGTON, D. C.

THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM COX OF WASHINGTON, D. C., BY HIS EXECUTOR MARY ANN COX, CONVEYS OWNERSHIP OF THE "SLAVE NAMED PETER, NOW ABOUT TWENTY EIGHT YEARS OF AGE AND A SLAVE FOR LIFE," TO WILLIAM CLARK OF WASHINGTON, D. C.

Washington: 1847. Folio leaf, folded to [4] pp, each page 8" x 13." Entirely in ink manuscript, old folds with several fold splits [archival tape repairs but no text loss]. Else Very Good.

On 20 March 1833, Clark had borrowed $250 from William Cox and, "to secure the payment," had conveyed "the slave named Peter" to Cox. The conveyance is known as a mortgage, with the agreement that, upon payment of the secured debt, the property would be reconveyed to Clark. As property, slaves were subject to well-established laws that governed the sale and ownership of inanimate objects.
Now, after Cox's death, Clark has paid the debt and the estate of Cox thus returned ownership of Peter to Clark. William Cox [c.1800-1839] served during the War of 1812 as Assistant Deputy Quartermaster in the U.S. Army from approximately 31 July1813 through June 1815. He married Mary Ann Dawson in 1817, and they settled in Washington, D.C. [War of 1812 Pension Files, Ancestry website.]. Item #42303

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