Sam Soney
Gender: male
Race: black
Birthplace: Congo
Age (when this record was documented): 40.0
Other comments: This act is a retroventa.Bahy bought this slave from Maria Fronquet Vda Rillieux, but the slave has run away. He had not made any payment on the slave yet.Luis DeMorant has agreed to take over the payments.
Selling Information
Name of the Seller: Pedro,free mulatto Bahy
Name of the Buyer: Luis Duquemenil DeMorant
Grouping: sold or inventoried as an individual
Selling Currency: p
Selling Value: 750
Selling Value: 750
Document: Information of the document that these records were retrieved.
Document Location: Orleans (including Chapitoulas).[Jefferson 1825]
Document Date: 1801-02-12
Document Number (from the document): 111
Notary Name: Pedesclaux
Date of Sale: 18010212
Type of document:
Any documents involving maroons, including reports of runaways, interrogation of caputred runaways,
and testimony by slaves about runaways:
yes
Language: Spanish
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
Personality
Character of slave (described by seller or appraiser): runaway "zimarron"
Characteristics:
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