Congo Billy
Gender: male
Race: black
Birthplace: Congo
Age Category: adult
Age (when this record was documented): 0.0
Other comments: Seller is testamentary executor of Ross. Selling half of a tannery (lot, building, tools, materials, etc.) and 8 slaves who work in the tannery.
Selling Information
Last Name of Deceased: Ross
Name of the Seller: Charles Patton
Name of the Buyer: James Martin
Grouping: sold or inventoried in a group
Selling Currency: d
Selling Value: 9000
Selling Value: 9000
Document: Information of the document that these records were retrieved.
Document Location: Orleans (including Chapitoulas).[Jefferson 1825]
Document Date: 1811-10-30
Document Number (from the document): 600
Notary Name: Lynd
Coder (person that encoded this record: Mabel Macias
Date of Sale: 18111030
Type of document:
Any documents involving maroons, including reports of runaways, interrogation of caputred runaways,
and testimony by slaves about runaways:
no
Language: English
Is this document of linguistic interest?:
no
Is this inventory or sale of an estate of a free person of African descent?:
no
Skill and Trade Information
Skills and Occupations: tannery worker
Skill: tanner
Personality
Family Information
Was this slave inventoried with his/her mother?:
no
Was this slave sold with his/her mother?:
no
Importation Information
Language group of Africans: : Benue-Congo
Was this slave being emancipated?:
no
Slave listed as dead?:
no