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(This document is a legal record of the sale on February 14, 1840, by Samuel Francis Richards of Washington (LouisianakflTntlu^liiiilpisW) of a fourteen-year-old black girl named Louisa to Mrs. Louise Frederic Ladner of Bay St. Louis.)
The translation is as follows:
Today, the fourteenth day of the month of February of the year 1840 and the sixty-fourth year of the independence of the United States of America,
Appeared before Louis T. Caire, notary public, in and for the city and parish of New Orleans, duly commissioned and under oath, and in the presence of the witnesses hereinafter named and signed, were Mr. Samuel Francis Richards, resident of the city of Washington, who has hereby sold
according to law..........to Mrs. Louise Frederic, wife of Jacques Ladner,
resident of Bay St. Louis, here present and accepting.........for her and her
heirs:
A Negro girl named Louisa, about fourteen years old, legally belonging to the seller as he has declared; with which slave and simple declaration the buyer has said she is content.
This sale has been made and accepted in exchange for the sum of six hundred piastres, which the seller acknowledges to have received from
the buyer in coins........counted and delivered in the sight of the notary
and of the witnesses signed below.........
By means of the preceding, the seller turns over to the aforesaid buyer all the general rights of ownership which he has held over the slave Louisa, the subject of this document, understanding that she may take possession of her to enjoy, do with, and dispose of as of something belonging to her from now on and always...........
This act of sale, completed in the law office in New Orleans on the date shown above, in the presence of Auguste Huard, Leopold Casbergne, witnesses, living in this city, who have signed with the seller and myself, notary, and the aforesaid buyer, who, not knowing how to write, has made her usual mark. (Signed) S.F. Richards; Louise Frederic Ladner + (her mark); Aug. Huard; L. Casbergne; Louis C. Caire, notary public.
......I hereby impose the seal of my office in New Orleans on February
14, 1840.
Signed: Louis C. Caire, Notary Public