Patrick S Coots of Platte County executed a deed of mortgage granting land and personal property, including slaves, to numerous individuals as security for various debts, with specific sums and dates owed to each creditor. "… Slave Prissy aged about 50 years, also slave George aged about 22 years, also slave Phil aged 18 years, also slave Walker aged about 16 years, also slave Bill aged about 13 years..."
Date(s) of Creation
7/31/1862
Other Names and Numbers
Other Names
Name Type
Enslaved
Other Name
Prissy
Name Type
Enslaver
Other Name
Coots, Patrick S. conveys slave to Boyd, Joshua & Johnson, R.D. & Cochran, H.M. & Woolfolk, W.L. & Freeland, H.J. & Murray, John D. & Johnson, Stephen & Rice, Charles & Smith, W.B. & Paxton, W.M. & others
