Document 1:

Title: Petition of Kitty Barbour, 10 September 1862

Date: September 10, 1862

Source Text: A microfilm reproduction of the original document held at the National Archives and Records Administration, Microcopy 433, Reel 3. The original document is held in the Records of the District Courts of the United States, 1685–2004, National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 21. Within the National Archives' Archival Description Catalog, see ARC Identifier 4314547 / MLR Number NC-2 33 (http://arcweb.archives.gov).

Document 2:

Title: Evidence Relating to the Petition of Kitty Barbour, 10 September 1862

Date: September 10, 1862

Source Text: A microfilm reproduction of the original document held at the National Archives and Records Administration, Microcopy 520, Reel 6. The original document is held in the Records of the Accounting Officers of the Department of the Treasury, 1775–1978, National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 217.6.5. Within the National Archives' Archival Description Catalog, see ARC Identifier 4644616 / MLR Number A1 347 (http://arcweb.archives.gov).

Civil War Washington ID: cww.01088

TEI/XML: cww.01088.xml

 
John A Smith Esq

Please file the following schedule under act of Congress of 12th July 1862

Kitty Barbour. female slave aged twenty two years, about five feet two inches in heighth. in color black.

J. C. Marbury
Atty​ for Lloyd Brooke of Oregon

The above slave has been before the commission & valued by them.


J. C. Marbury
Atty​ for Brooke
 
Paid
Lloyd Brooke schedule
Kitty Barbour
Recorded in Manumission Record No 2 folios 97
Cert​ given to Kitty Barbour Idfd​ by J. C. Marbury.
 
Lloyd Brookeout of time
Kitty 22 cook & housework. wash & iron $6 & $8 month. good health [teeth?] tolerable
$1100.

Edmund H Brooke know servt​ as Pet.​ by inheritance from father & mother. mother died 4 years ago. Pet​ is loyal—for putting down rebellion he so professes & expresses himself so. [illegible]

passed by [Comrs​?]
 
Lloyd Brooke servant
out of time
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