In 1842, Washington Ives secured a loan of $350 loan to Abraham Bessent with a twenty-year-old slave named Hannah. Bessent informs the court that the loan is past due and instead of delivering "the said negro woman to your orator after default of payment of said sum of three hundred and fifty dollars, with interest ... agreed and stipulated to do, sold and delivered the said negro woman to one Thomas B Smith." Bessent asks that Ives and Smith answer his charges.
Result: Granted.
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Repository: St. Johns County Historical Society, St. Augustine, Florida
