Description
Pocket Book Found. - - Found on the new cut road leading from Liberty to Platte City, near the line between Clay and Platte counties, a calf skin packet book containing the following papers:
A note of $89.90, with a credit of $56.75, payable to Henry M Henderson, signed by John Buchanan and Company. This note was executed for the hire of a negro.
Another note dated at Lexington, Missouri, payable to Henry M. Henderson without any signature; another is an order on the Estate of Jackson Tandy in favor of Henry H. Henderson; another is a note with the signature torn off, payable to John Brag. The owner can by calling at this office and paying for this advertisement obtain said pocket book and papers. Sept. 12, 1846
(Researcher's note: John Buchanan was born in Bourbon County, Kentucky, August 9, 1808, and died February 16, 1881. John and Eleanor Buchanan nee' Ballinger came to Clay County in 1836, and then in 1838 to Platte County settling north of Edgerton.
The 1860 Buchanan County, Missouri, Slave Schedules indicate that Henry Henderson lived in Platte Township of Buchanan County and enslaved 9 slaves. Platte Township is north of Edgerton, Missouri, in northeast Platte County, Missouri, and near where John Buchanan lived.)Date(s) of Creation
9/12/1846
