American Historical Ephemera & Photography

7 3/4 x 9 3/4 in. manuscript inventory (creased at folds, with some ink transfer and toning); framed to 12 1/8 x 14 1/8 in. (not examined out of frame). 

"A list of negroes belonging to the following minor children of A China Viz. Martha A China Sara E. Jenkins wife of [indecipherable] W. Jenkins, Victoria L China Susan T China and Alice China / Mariah...45, Jencey & her child Adam...60, Mahaly & her two children Louiza & Columbus...45, Rose...75, Polly...75, Betsey...40, Ben...110, Armsted...70, Isaac...100." 

Undersigned by R.C. Hurst, J.A. Hallman, and G.W. Blackburn, as called upon by A. China to "assess or fix the rate of hire on & for the above named Negroes...we assess the hire or value of said Negroes for the present year at Six hundred & twenty dollars done according to hour [sic] best judgment, &c. &c."

An Ancestry search found an Alfred China (1803-1862), having children named Martha A., Sara E., Victoria L., Susan T., Alice, and 3 other children not listed in the document featured here. Alfred and several of his children were born in Sumter, South Carolina, though around 1860 the family appears to have moved to Lauderdale County in Mississippi, where Alfred died in 1862.