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Slaves Seized by the High Sheriff.

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Slaves Seized by the High Sheriff.
Large partly-printed writ of High Sheriff Samuel Whitaker, Wake County, N.C., July 26, 1821, 12 1/4 x 16. Seizing Raleigh property - including "...the following negroes 'sic] slaves...Cooke, Denby & Charles..." - to satisfy $3,000 debt of John Holloway, Edmund Lane, and Thomas Cobb. Oath dated May 1822 on verso. Honey-colored stain at upper left affecting some names of plaintiffs and defendants, uniform browning, nearly separated at horizontal center fold but easily matted, else good plus. Member of a prominent old family, not only of Wake County but claiming descent from King Edward III, Whitaker was elected nine times to the N.C. House of Commons, and five times to the State Senate.