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[Bill of sale for purchase Harriet, an enslaved woman]

Description: A bill of sale for enslaver William McMaster’s purchase of a Harriet, an enslaved woman, from enslaver William B. Smith. E.M. Pease, also an enslaver, was a witness to the transaction.
Date: January 2, 1844
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Agreement for sale of Hercules, an enslaved boy]

Description: An agreement for the sale of Hercules, an enslaved boy who was "eleven or twelve years old." Hercules was sold by enslaver Ephraim M. Guthrie to enslaver Thomas Graham. The agreement names Hercules a "slave for life."
Date: September 29, 1847
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Funeral receipt]

Description: A receipt for printing and circulating funeral tickets (possibly for the funeral of Anne Marshall Pease, daughter of E.M. & Lucadia Pease).
Date: August 1862
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Funeral receipt]

Description: A receipt for the "funeral of [E.M. Pease’s] child," Anne Marshall Pease.
Date: September 19, 1862
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Receipt for transportation of slaves]

Description: A receipt for "hauling [E.M. Pease's] negros and goods."
Date: 1854-uu-16
Creator: Pease, Elisha Marshall & Conan, J. B.
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Tax receipts for E.M. Pease]

Description: Confederate-tax and war-tax receipts.
Date: {1862-06-03,1865-02-10,1865-02-23}
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Receipt for transportation of slaves]

Description: A receipt for the transportation of "the negro girl Emily and child belonging to Hon. E.M. Pease."
Date: September 15, 1853
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Post-Civil-War loyalty oath signed by Judge J.B.M. McFarland]

Description: A document in which J.B.M. McFarland, a judge of the first judicial district, swears that he “neither sought nor accepted, nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatsoever, under any authority or pretended authority in hostility to the United States”; a handwritten explanation follows.
Date: September 24, 1867
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Agreement for sale of Boston, an enslaved man, in Connecticut]

Description: An agreement for the sale of an enslaved man named Boston in Connecticut between enslaver John Griswold and the estate of deceased enslaver Josiah Filly, executed by David Barber.
Date: December 16, 1772
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Biographical essay on Elisabet Ney]

Description: A short biographical essay on Elisabet Ney—on the cover is a black-&-white reproduction of a painting of Ney by Fredrich Kaulbach.
Date: unknown
Creator: Fredrich Kaulbach
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Petition in case about ownership of slaves]

Description: Petition in a case ("Calvitt v. Harris") about ownership of slaves including Grace (age 27), her son, George (12), and another child of hers who is not named.
Date: January 30, 1849
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Essay “Pease School” by Timothy Alvin Brown]

Description: “Pease School,” an essay by Timothy Alvin Brown, who was the principal of the Austin Independent School District's oldest school, Pease Elementary, from 1892-1933.
Date: unknown
Creator: Brown, Timothy Alvin
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Correspondence to Carrie Crusemann from Charles S. Potts]

Description: A letter to Carrie Crusemann, one of E.M. and Lucadia Pease's grandchildren, from Charles S. Potts, then dean of the Southern Methodist University school of law, requesting information on the Pease family—at the time, Potts was preparing an entry on E.M. Pease for the "Dictionary of American Biography."
Date: March 31, 1931
Creator: Potts, Charles S.
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library
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