These documents contain property appraisals, sales, and expenditure receipts for Eubank heirs. They are detailed lists of items and figures, contain archaic language, and portions are difficult to read. My transcription excerpts are specific to the mention of slaves or Negroes.
Mip Caroline Eubank In (afc?) with D. L. Palmer Guardian
Mip Adeline Eubank
? Jessup Eubank
1836, June
Notes unpaid delivered to Miles Price o/c Mip C. Eubank 6 Negroes as named below. ? Miles Price (purchase receipt?} for C. Eubank /6 pr Co Comm for Services 576.25/ 2 receipts and expenditures.
6 Negroes (?) Valued
Big Tom $500.00
Amy 100.00
Hester 225.00
Cyrus 250.00
Big Sam 500.00
Daniel 400.00
1836,June
Miles Price {a/c?} gathering 46 (cattle?) & 8 Negroes as named below (?)/To Mip Adeline Eubank $2,175.00
8 Negroes (Biz-Business?} Valued
Andrew 250.00
Amy 375.00
Robert 150.00
Sally 125.00
Little Tom 500.00
Daniel 500.00
Charlotte
275.00
$2,175.00
1834, January, February, March & April
List of Negro names with the cost of clothing and household items allotted to them.
{?} Jessup Eubanks Bat of W. E. Holmes
Addam
Lynda
Sam
Jim
1845
21 Bush Corn furnished
Joe & Rose unable to work from 10th March/1845 to (June?) 1846 $21.00
12 yards Negro cloth Joe & Rose 3.00
2 pr shoes for Joe & rose 2.00
6 yards cloth for Jim 1.50 $24.50
Cr By hire of Sam Yule/year 1845 $45.00
“ Boy Adam “ 50.00
“ Boy Jim from 7 April to July1,1846
8 ¾ months 26.25
“ Linda from 1 April to 31st Dec. 1845 9.00 $130.25
9 months
? of Mrs. Ann M. Silcox her State Taxes for the year 1845 as guardian for JJ Eubanks on 8 Negroes and other items.
1846, January
Expense of leading young Negroes $10.00
Appraised Value for Negroes 2,258.33
By hire of Adam 50.00
“ Sam Gale 45.00
“ Jim 30.00
Linda 18.00
1847, April – 1848
6 yards Negro cloth
Cash paid for making clothes
For (?) (?) for boy Adam
Schedule of Negroes 2,025.00
6 Negroes Valued “
1848
By T.(W?) Holmes Co. note for Jim & Adam 175.00
“ Malinda Sick 0.00
“ A.S Baldwin note for Sam Gale 96.00
1850 & 1851
Receipt of clothing and shoes for Adam & Jim
By hire of Adam & Jim to P. Moody 276.00
“ Sam Gale to C. De? 100.00
“ Malinda not hired (sick)
1853
By hire of boy Sam to C. D? 120.00
“ Jim & Adam to Taylor Richardson 480.00
“ Malinda to D. McCuen? 35.00
“ Lydia to R. Jack 48.00
List and cost of items allotted to Negroes, Linda, Sam, Adam, and Jim
1854, By Hire of Negroes Jim & Adam 480, Sam Gale 120, Malinda 50, Lydia 50
(Eubank probate records #591,592,594/Duval County Court House/Jacksonville, FL)
“ I think Jim
is my great grandfather James Hall and Adam my gg uncle.”