Detail View: Rare and Distinctive Collections Teaching Collection: Estate of Blake B. Jones, deceased : app & inventory

Identifier: 
SPCPlumeKFA147J65_1843
Title: 
Bill of appraisement of the personal estate of Blake B. Jones
Title: 
Estate of Blake B. Jones, deceased : app & inventory
Subject: 
Inventories of decedents' estates -- Alabama -- Sumter County
Subject: 
Slaves -- United States
Subject: 
Slaveholders -- Alabama
Description: 
The appraisal was sworn to and subscribed by J.B. Allgood and Elizabeth D. Jones, "administrator and administratrix" and signed by them before Robert H. Weston, Justice of the Peace, State of Alabama, Sumter County, on January 5, 1843
Description: 
"The appraisal of the estate occurred approximately six months after Blake B. Jones' death on July 28th, 1842. Three appraisers worked on the document which lists 67 negro slaves and farm holdings such as tools, furniture, mules, horses, etc."--Bookseller's notes
Description: 
2 sheets ; 56 x 21 cm, folded to 21 x 9 cm
Date: 
1843
Type: 
Text
Source: 
For more information about the physical collection, visit the University of Colorado Boulder Libraries Rare and Distinctive Collections.
Language: 
English
Relation: 
b8489442
Relation: 
KFA147 .J65 1843
Rights: 
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