JOHN DEVEREUX PAPERS, #2149, 1791-1890
Military and business papers of Devereux, hardware merchant, banker, and Confederate
veteran of New Orleans, and financial, personal, and legal papers of Stephen and J. C. Van
Wickle, both sheriffs of Point Coupee Parish, Louisiana. The collection includes a letter
(1829) authorizing the hiring out of slaves, slave treatment, and
the inappropriateness of a woman's handling the hiring out of slaves. Financial and legal
papers include a slave bill of sale (1842). A volume of sheriff's
accounts includes a clipping concerning the legality of a free black manumitting a slave and
her three children (1827) and another volume lists slaves purchased
and amount paid. Among the Civil War records is a list of slaves conscripted to work on the
fortification of Fort Pemberton, Mississippi, and a provision return form for slaves
transporting ammunition and guns from Greenwood to Wenona, Mississippi (1863). Microfilm available.