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(SLAVERY.) Lyon, James. Deed of sixteen named slaves.
(SLAVERY.) Lyon, James. Deed of sixteen named slaves. 2 pages on one leaf, 392 x 324 mm, minor separations at folds slightly affecting text, soiling on docketing panel. Signed by Lyon, 2 witnesses, and Thomas Littleton Savage as county clerk. Northampton County, VA, 21 November 1809
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Notes: An unusually large mortgage deed for "the following slaves, viz, four negroe men named John Won, George, Able Booker & Jacob, a boy named Severn, a girl named Nelly, Tamar & her four children viz Gilbert, Sarah, Nelson, & Patience, also another woman named Fanny & her four children viz Rachel, Sylla, Sam, & Mary." Lyon agreed to pay John Eyre, guardian of William Eyre, $1,700 plus interest within two years. If Lyon failed to make payment, Eyre was "authorized to proceed to make publick sale of the afores'd negroe slaves to the highest bidders, having given ten days previous notice by advertizing the time & place of holding such sale."
James Lyon married Sarah Eyre (1770-1813) in 1799. In this document, Lyon was apparently buying his wife's family slaves on credit, with one of the slaves named after her father Severn Eyre. References: Matthew Wise. The Littleton Heritage (Wentworth, 1997), 195. -
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