Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889) to Sarah Dorsey
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04054 Author/Creator: Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889) Place Written: Beauvoir, Harrison County, Mississippi Type: Manuscript document signed Date: 20 February 1879 Pagination: 1 p. 25.4 x 20.2 cm Order a Copy
Promise to pay $2,500 by January, 1882 for the Beauvoir plantation owned by Dorsey in Harrison County, Mississippi. The note was to serve as a lien against the property. Davis and his wife moved onto the estate grounds in 1877, so that Davis could write his memoirs. Dorsey died before the note came due, but left Beauvoir and three other plantations to Davis in her will.
TRANSCRIPT GLC 04054
Jefferson Davis. Manuscript document signed: to Sarah Dorsey, Beauvois, Mississippi, 20 Feb. 1879. 1 p.
20 Feb. 1879, Beauvois, Mississippi
Beauvoir, Harrison County
Mississippi Feb 20 1879
$2500.
On or before the ? day of January 1882 I promise to pay to the order of Mrs. Sarah A Dorsey the sum of Two thousand and five hundred dollars in current money of the United States in consideration of the sale and conveyance of a certain tract of land with the dwelling house and buildings there on and known as Beauvois & in the county of Harrison State of Mississippi. This note to operate as a lien upon said tract of land
Jefferson Davis
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