Document, Runaway Slave

 
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Document, Runaway Slave
letter about runaway slave
letter about 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
    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)
    Status
    Not on view
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