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Samuel H. Lane of Kentucky sells slaves to Parker Otwell of Kentucky for $1900.00 and records the bill of sale in Platte County, Missouri.
Know all men by these presents that I, Samuel H. Lane, have this day in consideration of the sum of $1900.00 to me in hand paid in my own notes by Parker Otwell bargained and sold and by these presents do bargain, sell, and convey unto the said Otwell the following negro slaves viz: Owen who is about 27 years old, Mary about 21 years old and her child Waller (now at the breast), Sarah Mariah about 5 years old, Cincinnati, a girl about 3 years old, and also Jim about 1 year old, each of which six Negroes I hereby warrant to be sound in body and mind and slaves for life as witness my hand this 17 June 1850. Samuel H. Lane. Witness: B. F. Dorsey
Commonwealth of Kentucky, Scott Circuit Court: I, Preston Thomson, Clerk of the Scott Circuit Court, do certify that the foregoing bill of sale from Samuel H. Lane to Parker Otwell is correctly transcribed from the original on file in the suit of Daviess & Hatch vs. Samuel H. Lane etc. in my office. In testimony whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the seal of said Court at office in Georgetown this 18th day of May 1853 and in the 61st year of the Commonwealth. P. Thomson, Clerk C. C.
Filed for record (in Platte County, Missouri) on August 29, 1853 and recorded same day. W. C. Remington, Recorder.
(Researcher's note: Per The Offutt Family, Book IV, Parker Otwell was appointed the administrator of Estate of Otho Offutt in Bourbon County, Kentucky http://www.offutt.rocks/p39.htm. Per Paxton's Annals, Otho Offutt was born in Kentucky on February 11, 1836. He was the son of Samuel R. Offutt who came to Platte County in 1843. Otho Offutt married Sarah Settle on December 12, 1866 and he died on July 1, 1884.Date(s) of Creation
6/17/1850