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. ******************************************************************************** Know all men by These presents That I George A. Gillenwaters of the County of Hawkins State Tennessee for and in consideration of The sum of Twelve hundred dollars to me in hand paid have bargained and sold unto Charles A. McKinney a negro woman by the name of Franky and about twenty three or four years of age and her child a girl called Harriet and about three years of age and which negros I warrent to be slaves for life and sound in body and mind In witness whereof I have here to set my hand and seal this 19th day of May 1856 George A Gillenwater Witness James G. Mitchell [second signature not readable-paper torn off]