Abner Lipscomb to William Barron, November 18, 1840

Summary: Lipscomb sent to Barren a copy of the contract made between Taylor and his buyer for the black servants he was sending from Barbados to Texas. Included is an affidavit by a notary public swearing that the contract was accurate and the only one in existence.

REPUBLIC OF TEXAS

DEPARTMENT OF STATE

Austin 18th of November 1840

SIR

Agreeable to the request of John Taylor Esqr, of Barbadoes, I herewith transmit the evidence of Joseph Grigsby, and Augustus B Hardin, with a copy of the Original contract between William Moore and said John Taylor relating to certain persons of color; with the certificates of the properly authorized persons to take evidence

I have the honor to be

Your Obt Servant

ABNER S LIPSCOMB

Secretary of State

To WILLIAM BARRON Esqr

London

REPUBLIC OF TEXAS

County of Travis

On this the thirteenth day of November one thousand eight hundred and forty personally appeared before me James W Smith

edge to us in hand paid in the Town of Georgia on the Natchez River in the presence of the Undersigned to witness the 28th day of May 1836

(Signed) TAYLOR AND AMES

PR JOHN TAYLOR

Witnesses

THOS M DUKE

JOSEPH GRIGSBY

GEO EWING

REPUBLIC OF TEXAS

County of Liberty

Before me Geo W Miles chief Justice and Ex officio a Notary public in and for the County aforesaid, personally came and appeared William Moore of said County to me known, and he being by me duly sworn deposed and said that the within Contract is a true and Correct Copy of the only Contract ever entered into between this deponent and John Taylor in regard to William Gunsil Edmd. Whittaker and Edward Hicks men of Color further the deponent saith not.

WM MOORE

Sworn to and subscribed before me on this the Second Novr in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty (1840) and of the Independence of the Republic of Texas the fifth As witness my hand and seal of office at Liberty date above written

GEO W MILES C J C L

and Ex officio Not Pub

Source Copy Consulted: Abner Lipscomb to William Barron, November 18, 1840, George Garrison, ed., Diplomatic Correspondence of the Republic of Texas, Annual Report of the American Historical Association for the Year 1908, (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1911), 3 vols., 3: 911, 914