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- GLC#
- GLC09331
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 2 May 1829
- Author/Creator
- Clay, Henry, 1777-1852
- Title
- [Decree]
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 2 p. :
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
Decree issued by the Kentucky Circuit Court at Fayette, awarding payment to Clay, who held the mortgage on a property including slaves, which must be sold to pay him. Clay adds an addendum specifying that a young girl not listed on the mortgage be treated as if she had been: "…it being desirable that the mother should not be separated from the child, we do hereby agree that the said child shall be sold with the mother."
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