1822 agreement regarding a slave named Abraham between Benijah Green & R. Kelly, Webster County, Virginia

13 x 8 inches, one sheet, good with some dampstaining tidemarks, light ink stains to the blank verso as well. Terms of an agreement from 1822 by which Benijah Green sells to R. Kelly for $377.37 a slave named Abraham. Green (1765-1840) was born in Virginia, lived for a time in Kentucky and then moved back to the Laurel Creek Valley in Webster County Virginia (now West Virginia). According to a wikitree genealogical entry on him, "Benijah Green, born around 1765 in Virginia, left Virginia at an early age and settled in Kentucky. Around 1790 he married Sara "Isabelle" Evans (b. abt 1768) and became a prosperous tobacco farmer in what is now Greenup County, Kentucky. Between 1800 and 1810 Benijah Green left Kentucky and migrated to the Laurel Creek Valley of Webster County, Virginia (now West Virginia). He took at least a dozen slaves with him and tried to establish a plantation along Laurel Creek like the one he had left in Kentucky. This venture was not a success; Benijah eventually lost his land and his slaves in various suits against him for debt. From available records it appears that Benijah Green was the only resident of Webster County who owned slaves during the first half of the Nineteenth Century." Good. Item #H33270

Price: $250.00