#Ancestor Challenge 2019, Week 18, ‘Slave Girl Jilly'

#Ancestor Challenge 2019, Week 18, ‘On the Road’

A Negro Girl Named Jilly 

by the Rev. Dr. Cynthia Forde

Jilly, oh, my word, Jilly!  I wish I could comfort you.  You were only eleven years old, and you were sold.  Were you leaving your parents?  Your brothers and sisters?   Was this your only home? What were you feeling?  Fear?  Yes!  SOLD! You were sold! What were you thinking?   I will never know the painful road you had to travel, I can only imagine your sorrow.   I will never know what happened to you,  but I promise to be kind to your descendants, wherever I find them.

Deed of Sale for a Girl Named Jilly

Rec. of Henry Camp, One hundred and forty-five dollars and No/100 for a Negro girl name Jilly.  The write and title we do forever warrant and defend so far as between us the estate of Caleb Sappington? On this 7th January 1846.

Age of the above named girl
is eleven years old.

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H. H. Camp                                                                       

                                      John M. Sappington, Executors 
                                      Milton Bentley

                                      Presley F. Christian