Bill of sale and bond letter

The collection contains a bill of sale for five slaves, a soft leather wallet, and a letter regarding a pre-Civil War bond, belonging to Jackson Napoleon Chadwick and his heirs.

The wallet (7" tall and about 3.25" wide when closed) with an attached notepad includes notations that give a rare glimpse of the provenance of the wallet, from 1839 when it was given to Jackson Napoleon Chadwick by his brother S. W. Chadwick. Below this note is another written by Bessie Chadwick Minge stating that the wallet was found among her father's belonging after his death in August 1898. A final note added in January 1907, says that the "pencil was left in my husband's jacket at the time of his death." There is no signature on this last notation.

Also in this collection of papers is a bill of sale for five slaves (two girls and three boys) between the ages of eleven and sixteen. Jackson Chadwick made the purchase in Mobile in March 1861.

The final item in the collection is an 1869 letter from Charles J. Friend to David Minge regarding Friend's efforts to discharge Minge's $5,000 debt, incurred before the Civil War, to Mrs. M. E. C. Gilliam. Minge