The estate of William A. Barton consists of eight entries including the hiring out of two enslaved people and a value estimation of the enslaved people.
Documents for the sale of enslaved people Margaret and her infant son Thomas, as well as Margaret's future children, "with the future issue and increase of Margaret", to Henry Wessels from Francis A. Mitchell for the sum of eleven hundres and fifty dollars. Auction was carried out by J.S. Riggs auctioneers.
Documents for the sale of an enslaved woman named Margaret and her unborn child to Francis A. Mitchell from Benjamin Lazarus for the sum of one thousand dollars. Auction was carried out by J.S. Riggs auctioneers.
