Tom
Gender: male
Race: black
Age (when this record was documented): 20.0
Other comments: A second inventory of this estate is taken on May 13, 1805 for the purpose of selling it. This slave appears as Thomas, 27 yrs, escaped which he is accustomed to do, and worth 500 pesos.
Selling Information
Last Name of Deceased: Alston
Estate Number: 25-S-030-008-1803
Grouping: sold or inventoried as an individual
Currency of Inventory: US dollar = 1p
Inventory Value: 600
Document: Information of the document that these records were retrieved.
Document Location: Feliciana. Includes Spanish West Florida Papers. Separated into East Feliciana and West Feliciana in 1824.
Document Date: 1803-10-20
Document Number (from the document): 265
Notary Name: W.Fl Vol VII
Date of Inventory: 18031020
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
Characteristics:
Family Information
Was this slave inventoried with his/her mother?:
no
Was this slave sold with his/her mother?:
no
Importation Information
Was this slave being emancipated?:
no
Slave listed as dead?:
no