Hi Tracy, In this list below, is the Lucinda Botts listed here a slave, an owner, an owner whose slave is being "brokered" or what? I may have some information, particularly if the tie-in is to Randolph County, Missouri. Phil Your Quote: Lucinda Botts: $350.00 sold to Mr. Rutherford New Orleans $525 > 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 >