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[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

[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

[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

[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
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