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STATE OF LOUISIANA,
Parish of De Soto

BE IT KNOWN, that, this day, before me, SAMUEL F. SMITH, Recorder and ex-officio Notary Public, for the Parish of De Soto, State of Louisiana, duly commissioned and sworn, came and appeared Haron L Salter of the above parish and state 
   WHO DECLARED, that, for the consideration of the sum of four hundred and fifty dollars paid in a note due on 1st Jany 1863, with interest at 8 per cent from due, & payable to John Gallaspy or to his order [[?]].  BY THESE PRESENTS, grant, bargain, sell, convey, transfer, assign, and set over with a full guaranty against all troubles, debts, mortgages, claims, evictions, donations, alienations, and other incumbrances whatsoever, [[strikeout]]unto[[/strikeout]] (except against a certain mortgage given on said slave by him and Wife [[strikeout]]another said slave[[/strikeout]] together with other property by notarial act passed before.  S F Smith Recorder on the 2nd day of January A D 1861. which mortgage is understood and agreed to- by Samuel J Minbush (Now present, purchasing and accepting this sale) the following described negro slave to wit. [[underline]]Rosner,[[/underline]] a negro woman of dark complexion aged about forty nine or fifty years- and a slave for life-

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