Well, it was inevitable that we would find some dirty deeds in our past, and it looks like our ancestor Elkanah English and wife Catherine owned slaves and "sold" them in 1850. Elkanah and Catherine English were Vera's great great grandparents.
1852 Dec 6
Deed of emancipation signed Alfred Chadwick of St. Louis County, Missouri, freeing a 32-year-old Negro slave woman named Milly and an 11-year-old Negro slave girl named Bell (alias Isabella). Chadwick frees these two slaves in consideration of $600. Chadwick had purchased these two slaves from Elkanah English and Catherine English on July 1, 1850. Witnesses, Saml. A. Holmes and Jas. R. Lackland. Document recorded in the St. Louis Circuit Court by M.S. Cerre, clerk, December 6, 1852. Includes notation of St. Louis Circuit Court Clerk Stephen Rice, April 26, 1861, certifying that the
foregoing document is a true copy of the deed of emancipation.
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