Lot of 5 Richard LEWIS Family Plantation Documents (including Slave Deed) in antebellum Bladen County North Carolina
Bladen County, North Carolina: 1843. Lot of 5 early Documents (including an antebellum slave deed) connected to the Richard Mullington LEWIS Family, Plantation owners in antebellum Bladen County, North Carolina. Each framed individually.
It is believed that Richard M. Lewis Sr. (1783-1844) donated horses as a payment for not being drafted into the Charleston, SC Revolutionary War battles with General Cornwallis.
Slave Deed, Richard M. Lewis to sons William S. and R.M. Lewis, Jr., 23 slaves (some named) but retains a life estate and reserves the right to sell or "dispose" of them. Also bequeaths "the increase" of those slaves, dated August 19, 1856.
Land Deed, Richard M. Lewis to son R.M. Lewis, Jr. 650 acres for $0.50, Bladen County, East side of Great Swamp.
Land Deed, George W. Melvin (Bladen County Sheriff) to Richard M. Lewis, Jr. for $270, and $8.50 "for costs", 900 acres on the East side of the Great Swamp, dated May 2, 1843.
Sale of "read" and white cows for $20, Jonathan Reefs to Richard M. Lewis, Jr., dated January 5, 1857.
Land Deed, William Evers to Richard M. Lewis for 221 acres in Bladen County, North Carolina, dated November 11, 1857. Item #101722
Price: $2,250.00