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full right to sell and convey the said slave Bashaba to the
said Thomas J. Spear and that I warrant and defend the same
against the legal claims of all persons whomsoever. Provided nevertheless,
that if I, the said Robert E. Booth, my executors, administrators, or
assigns, or any of them, do and shall well and truly pay or cause
to be paid unto the said Thomas J. Spear the full sum of six
hundred dollars in the manner set forth in the following obligation,
to wit. On or before the 29th day of November next, I promise to
pay Mr. Thomas J. Spear or order the sum of six hundred dollars
for value received, payable as follows, viz., four hundred and fifty
dollars in good merchantable lumber at fourteen dollars per thousand
[shingles], and one hundred and fifty dollars in good merchantable
sole leather at twenty cents per pound. All to
be delivered at Green's Bluff on the Sabine River or at a [suit]able
place on Adams Bayou where vessels will receive it. [A]nd
I also obligate myself to ship the same on board vessels [bou]nd
for Galveston, provided there are vessels to be had. Said ve[sse]l to
be furnished by said Spear free of charge. Said Spear p[ayi]ng
freight. Provided, however, that should I fail to deliver the [above]-
named quantity of lumber in the said named time, [I am]
at liberty to make up the difference in leather at the ab[ove]-
named price or in good cypress shingles at two and 75/100
[do]llars per thousand delivered as aforesaid. [If Booth pays his debt], then these presents shall
be null and void; otherwise to be and remain in full force,
virtue and effect. In witness whereof, I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed my seal (seal being in
scroll) this twenty-eighth day of August eighteen hundred
and fifty-three. The words "said vessels to be furnished by said
Spear" interlined between fifth and sixth lines before signing.
In presence of
E. G. Phipps,
Henry Hubbell.
Robert E. Booth {Seal}.
Republic of Texas,
Galveston County } Before me, Robert D. Johnson,
Chief Justice and ex officio Notary Public