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The document details:
6 months of 26 dollar per month for rent,
22 months of 20 dollar per month for unnamed expense,
"Mount of Peter's hier" - $262,
"Mount of Bridget's hiear" - $93
Deducts per time hours entry
Due by Peter - $111
Due by Bridget -$13
Due by Hour Peter - $25
Mount of Last Review
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To Peter - $150
To Bridget - $20
Eighth Census of the United States, 1860, Schedule 2, Slave Inhabitants, Central Township. St. Louis, Missouri, 02, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri; National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
On May 25, 1855, the Missouri Republican published an advertisement issued by Henry Shaw, offering a $300 reward for the return of Jim, an enslaved person owned by Shaw who had apparently escaped on May 20, 1855. The newspaper contains physical descriptions of Jim.
The document is a bill of sale of Esther to Henry Shaw. The document describes Esther to be of 41 years of age and to have been previously enslaved by John Brown, now deceased, and then by Ludowig Finkman, the father-in-law of John Knippenberg, who is selling Esther to Henry Shaw at 400 dollars.
A memorandum was issued on 1 May 1840 for a two-year extension of the loan agreement initially settled on 1 February 1839 between John Berry Meachum and Henry Shaw.
This newspaper ad was published in the Missouri Republican on May 25, 1855. Henry Shaw places a $300 reward for Jim, who, according to the ad, calls himself Jim Kennerly, who was enslaved by Shaw but escaped.
Jim is described to have aged about twenty as of 1855, about five(?) feet six inches tall: rather stout made, mild spoken, intelligent, and called himself Jim Kennerly.
