- Collection:
- Affidavit Regarding Importation and Sale of Enslaved People, 1801 July 3, August 26
- Title:
- Testimony of Savannah slave traders (enslavers) Hector Mitchell and "Mr. Gairdner"
- Creator:
- Savannah (Ga.)
Camden County (Ga.) - Date of Original:
- 1801-08-26
- Subject:
- Slavery--Georgia--History
Slave trade--Georgia
Enslaved persons--Georgia - People:
- Mitchell, Hector
Scott, George
Garvin, David
Kinnard, John - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- affidavits
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- Consists of testimony of Savannah slave traders (enslavers) Hector Mitchell and "Mr. Gairdner", who swore that "sometime in the year [1797] a parcel of [thirty-six enslaved people] was picked up at sea." Mitchell and Gairdner, agents for enslavers John and James McBurney had the persons placed in jail; an ordinance of the Savannah city council arranged the sale of these persons to David Garvin. The statement goes on to mention that John Kinnard now holds perceived ownership of six of the enslaved persons of the original group. These six enslaved people are named Baptiste, Gilbert, Peters, Edward, Louis and John Louis
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/guan_2599_001-001
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/guan_2599_001-001#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/guan_2599_001-001/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: Affidavit regarding importation and sale of enslaved people, ms 2599. Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.
- Extent:
- 3 pages
- Holding Institution:
- Hargrett Library
- Rights:
-
Transcript of Court Document Regarding the
Sale of Slaves from Grenada in Georgia, 1801
United States
State of Georgia
To whom those present shall come
Greetings
Be it known on this 26th Day of August in this year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
one, and in the twenty-sixth year of American Independence, before us Richard W. Stites a
public notary in and for the state aforesaid by lawful authority duly admitted commissioned and
sworn residing in the city of Savannah personally came and appeared Hector Mitchell of said
city who being by us duly and solemnly sworn maketh oaths and doth expose and say that
appears by the books of Messrs Gairdner and Mitchell late of this place Merchants of which this
appears hath the charge that sometime in the year one thousand and seven hundred and ninety
seven, a parcel of Negroes was picked up at sea in a boat belonging to the ship General Nichols
from Grenada and brought into the port of Savannah and that Gairdner and Michell who agents
for John and James McBurney of the aforesaid island of Grenada to whom the said several
Negroes slaves belonged and that the said several Negroes in number about thirty six were put in
[jail] and there detained for some time, when they were all or in part delivered by an ordinance of
the City Council of Savannah to David Garvin to be authorized thereby the same become his
property on the sole condition of his transporting and carrying them without the limits and
jurisdiction of this state: and the said appeared Hector Mitchell believeth the Negroes hereinafter
mentioned viz Baptiste, Gilbert, Peters, Edward, Louis and John Louis six of this number
delivered as aforesaid, to he aforesaid David Garvin who afterwards sold those to one John
Kinnaird and that the said John Kinnaird to those to whom he has sold or may sell the aforesaid
Negro slaves is or are just and lawful owner or owners, those of Hector Mitchell.
In Faith and Testimony of the truths where of I have set my hand and affixed my Notarised Seal
at the City of Savannah this day and year before written.
Court Attestor.
Richard W. Stites