A single sheet, written on the front only, with a short docket on the back. A word is struck out after “one dish” and is left out here.
Bill of sale from James Anderson to James Roach for household goods, hogs and a saddle – Craven County, 1825
Transcription notes: spelling, capitalization and punctuation follow the original. Words in [square brackets] are editorial notes; [?] marks an uncertain reading and [illegible] marks words that could not be read.
State of North Carolina }
Cavin [Craven] County } Know all men by these presants that I James Anderson have this day bargained and sold unto James Roach for the sum of fifteen Dollars one bedstid one Chist ten plaits [plates] one tin bucket one dish one set of tea cups & saucers one pan one skillet three Boals [bowls] ten head of hogs one saddle too bason [two basins] two Bottles which said sum I acknowledge to have received before the ensealing of these present which said articles I the said James Anderson doath promise to warrant and defend against the Claim of all and every person what ever to the said James Roach his heirs Executors administrators or assigns In witness whereof I have hearunt set my hand and seal this 22d day of December 1825
Signed in presants of
Eather [?] his X mark Witherington [?]
James Anderson (Seal)
[On the back:]
Bill of Sale from James Anderson
About the original
The witness signed with a mark. His name is hard to read; it looks like “Eather” (or a similar first name) Witherington.
A James Anderson subscribed for one student under the 1823 school contract with teacher Turner Nelson, which is in the same folder.
Source: Bill of sale from James Anderson to James Roach for household goods, hogs and a saddle. Roach Family Papers (#346), East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, Box 1, Folder d (Legal Records, 1784–1901). Collection guide. Digitized folder: ECU Digital Collections, 0346-b1-fd.
Images courtesy of East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University. View in ECU Digital Collections: 35863.
Also from this folder: Swift Creek residents hire Turner Nelson as teacher of “Reading writing and Arithmetic” in 1823.
Part of the Roach Family Papers collection on East Carolina Roots.
