TNGenWeb Project/TNGenNet, Inc., (a Tennessee nonprofit public benefit corporation). "The Howard-Smith Collection" Transcription copyright: 1998, by Mrs. F. A. Augsbury; all rights reserved. The originals are at the McClung Library in Knoxville. This file is in text format. Please use your browser's "back" button to return to the previous page. ******************************************************************************** Rec'd of C J McKinney Five Hundred Dollars in full of the price of a negro slave called Cora and her child called Rossella both of which I warrent to be sound of mind and body and slaves for life, and I warrent the title to the said C J McKinney his heirs and assigns in the said slaves against the claims or demands of any one. Witness my hand & seal this the 25th day of December 1850 Sarah Gaines Charles Lynn Saml. M. Gaines.