Legal Documents, 1800-1845

This series consists of bills of sale for two Baltimore schooners, indentures, a mortgage note, a mail route proposal, and a statement before a Justice of the Peace. On November 4, 1859, before a Justice of the Peace, Royston Betts wrote his account of the assault on William Preston, describing how he and Preston left Barnum's hotel and entered Mr. Ruppert's house where two unknown men attacked Preston: "His face was dreadfully crushed and his clothing covered with blood." This document is in Madge's handwriting. The series is arranged alphabetically by document type and then by the first name on the document.