This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Alley, Mercer, Riser, Hill, Walker Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/mkB.2ACI/365 Message Board Post: I am looking for any information of property ownership records of Wm. Alley, Asa Mercer, Martin Riser or Martha Riser Hill. In particular I am searching for diaries or records of slaves they might have owned named Jake or Jacob and Maria. Jake and Maria had children named Wash (mulatto), Joseph, Dennis, Laura, Ellen and Ann. These slaves were all sold together to T.J. Walker by Martha RIse Hill in 1861. If anyone has record of a bill of sale please let me know. I am told Jake and Maria might have come to the U.S. from the West Indies.