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Slaves for Sale

Sheriff Sale of Hogmire property, 1858, with named slaves

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Sheriffs Sale.
BY virtue of three writs of Fieri Facias, issued out of the Circuit Court for Washington County, and to me directed, at the suit or the Washington County Bank, against the goods and chattels, lands and tenements of Andrew Hogmire, and for fees, I have seized and taken in execution all the estate, right, title, interest, trust, property, claim and demand, at law and in equity of the said Andrew Hogmire, in and to the following property to wit

A CERTAIN TRACT OF LAND, CONTAINING

For Sale, A Likely Mulatto Woman, by Galloway, 17966

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To be Sold,

A LIKELY mulatto woman aged about thirty-six years, and her four children, viz. two girls, and two boys, the eldest girl is about ten, the second six, the eldest boy four, and he youngest about two years of age –
the woman is pregnant, and the children are all likely and healthy – Also, a healthy, active negro-woman aged about twenty-six years, with her two children, viz. one boy about four, and another two years of age or thereabout, both very promising children.