ale for her--$600 on the 21st
July, $300 on the 27th and 28th of July, and $50 on 13th
August, 1855.

"I have and shall make use of said money for Lizzy's benefit,
and hereby guarantee to her one per cent. per month--as much
more as can be made she shall have. The one per cent., as it
may be checked out, I will be responsible for myself, as well
as for the whole amount, when it shall be needed by her.

"WILLIS L. WILLIAMS.

"ST. LOUIS, 13th August, 1855."

"Know all men by these presents, that for and in
consideration of the love and affection we bear towards our
sister, Anne P. Garland, of St. Louis, Missouri, and for the
further consideration of $5 in hand paid, we hereby sell and
convey unto her, the said Anne P. Garland, a negro woman
named Lizzie, and a negro boy, her son, named George; said
Lizzie now resides at St. Louis, and is a seamstress, known
there as Lizzie Garland, the wife of a yellow man named
James, and called James Keckley; said George is a bright
mulatto boy, and is known in St. Louis as Garland's George.
We warrant these two slaves to be slaves for life, but make
no representations as to age or health.

"Witness our hands and seals, this 10th day of August, 1855.

"JAS. R. PUTNAM, [L.S.]
"E. M. PUTNAM, [L.S.]
"A. BURWELL, [L.S.]"

"THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, WARREN COUNTY,
CITY OF VICKSBURG. } _SS._

"Be it remembered, that on the tenth day of August, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five,
before me, Francis N. Steele, a Commissioner, resident in the
city of Vicksburg, duly commissioned and qualified by the
executive authority, and under the laws of the State of
Missouri, to take the acknowledgment of deeds, etc., to be
used or recorded therein, personally appeared James R. Putnam
and E. M. Putnam, his wife, and Armistead Burwell, to me
known to be the individuals named in, and who executed the
foregoing conveyance, and acknowledged that they executed the
same for the purposes therein mentioned; and the E. M. Putnam
being by me examined apart from her husband, and being fully
acquainted with the contents of the foregoing conveyance,
acknowledged that she executed the same freely, and
relinquished her dower, and any other claim she might have in
and to the property therein menti