Document, Runaway Slave

Document, Runaway Slave

Object number1998.055.01

DateJanuary 8, 1857

OriginConway, Arkansas

Mediumpaper and ink

DimensionsOverall: 7 3/4 x 7 3/4 in. (19.7 x 19.7 cm)

Credit LineOld State House Museum Collection

Terms

Letter
Letter

DescriptionDocument on blue lined paper with faded black ink. In upper left corner there is an embossed insignia. Document was composed by James Campbell, a justice of the peace in Conway County, and issues a warrant and Fee arrangement for the return of a runaway slave. The document is dated January 1857.

Transcription:

Front page

State of Arkansas
County of Conway / A B Taylor you (?)
hereby (?) to take (?) (?)
runaway slave belonging to the estate
(?) (?) received and declare him
to (?) (?) with the warrant
by them the said ? paying you
all the cost and (?) (?) (?)
(?) and returning said negro boy
to them Said negro was taken
at the residence of the said A B Taylor
(?) from his place of
residence about eighty miles
the amount of fees (?) by (?) is
fifteen dollars for taken (sic) up said
negro and ten for every mile he shall
(?) travel in (?) said
(?) to the (?)
Given my hand this the 8th day
January AD 1857
James Campbell JP

Back page

Mr. C. Robinson (?) A B Taylor

Taking of slave $15.00
80 miles travel 10. (?) 8.00
Cash paid of (?) 1.10
Horse 5.00
Janurary 14th 1857 $29.10
A B Taylor (marked through)

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