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Receipt for the Hire of a Slave at the State Salt Works

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Title

Receipt for the Hire of a Slave at the State Salt Works

Description

Receipt acknowledging payment of $70 in Confederate notes and fifteen sacks of salt (3,000 lbs) “for the hire of a negro man eight months in 1864” from S. C. Callicoate. Another receipt (not included here) from September 23 records payment of 2,060 lbs of salt paid to same person for a “negro man” for work at the salt works in 1864.

Creator

A. H. Abney

Source

Records of the Texas Military Board, Texas State Library and Archives Commission, 2-10/304

Publisher

Published here by W. Caleb McDaniel.

Date

September 19, 1865

Rights

This item is believed to be in the public domain. No copyright in the item is asserted or implied by its publication here.

Format

JPEG

Language

English

Type

Text

Identifier

E971F3D1-0444-4E63-8B3D-557FA63B0326

Collection

Texas Military Board Records