Early in my slave research I ran across Rice Patterson of Howard Co., MO and tried to connect his family to the family of Edwin Patterson who ran Ravenswood in Bunceton, MO... but no such luck. Gentry Patterson - the great grandson of Edwin Patterson is still around...but he could not give me any details about the family's history etc. Anyway, a couple of years ago, I started a transcription team to transcribe the slave ledger of John R. White a slave trader from Central Missouri who sold and traded slaves to New Orleans, Louisiana, Texas, and Missouri. I scanned the states quickly... and these were the predominant locations... many many slaves were sold to slaveowners or slavehouses in Louisiana. Which is very scary. I purchased a copy of the slave ledger from the Western Historical Manuscript Collection... and have been plugging away reading it and transcribing it for some time now. I will make an effort to post slave transactions to and from Missouri owners. The Louisiana transactions are many...and I could still use transcribers if anyone is interested...but I hope to get the entire ledger transcribed and have it online one day soon. If anyone is interested in reading more about the slave trade in Central MO etc., please pick up a copy of Walter Johnson's book: "Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market." Here are slaves of Rice Patterson sold to John White in 1846 James Lewis sold to: Thos. Pugh Bayou LaFourche guaranteed for light ? on Bogart and Foley $750 Nancy Duncan to White & Patterson: Sold to C. March Donaldville guaranteed note one day after date: $500 Emily White: sold to Joseph Lailleur {sp?} Assumption Parish cash: $600 Mary Lewis: sold to Mr. Legrand -- Mississippi cash Anderson Bowman: Sold to Eugene Bourgois Parrish Lafourche Interior; note due on 1st March 1846 guaranteed $800 Tom Fickle: sold to Abribarade Parish Lafourche Interior note due all March 1847, $800 Issac Childs: sold to McCalliout Lafourche Interior fully guaranteed payable March $750. Lewis Lipscomb: sold by Tooley at Memphis..... $650.00 Lewis Baker: sold or swapped to Mr. McBride cashier $750 Matilda Hockersmith: sold to Doct. on Ouachitas.... guaranteed cash $475 Hanna Miner: sold at Memphis by Tooley Albert Childs: Sold to Laforest & Scuddy Thiboadaux...guaranteed cash.. $750 **Mary Curtis returned from last year...sold to Mr. Legrand Mississippi cash. $580.00 Negroes Belonging to R. Patterson 1845-46 Matilda White cost: $313 sold on LaFourche $500 Charles White: $575 sold to Mr. Dasuau [sp?] on coast $727.50 Charles Freeland: $537.50 Died in February in New Orleans $ Lewis Todd $550.00 sold to Judge Banres Treborne [sp?] $750 Albert Major: $387.50 sold to Mr. Estis [sp?] New Orleans $541 Lewis Martin: $360.00 sold to Mr. Bootman [sp?] New Orleans $450 William Broadus: $350.00 sold to " " $400 Richard & Mary Curtis: $370.00 sold to Mr. Legrande 1847 Mississippi $580 Lucinda Botts: $350.00 sold to Mr. Rutherford New Orleans $525 Ann Nancy Duncan $307.50 sold to Le March Oct. 1846 note payable April 1847 $500 Ben Friedland $530.000 sold in Attackakas [sp?] By Cooper $800 [Western Historical Manuscript Collection, Columbia, MO] Traci Wilson-Kleekamp African Americans in Missouri http://www.missouri-slave-data.org http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mo/topic/afro-amer/indexusg.html