Used as Collateral (Hull)

Andrew J. Hull, Liberty County, used as collateral on a debt to W.P. Girardeau “a negro man Slave named Thomas, dark complexion, about twenty five years of age…” The debt was described as follows: “Provided always, nevertheless, that if the said Andrew J. Hull shall well & truly pay or cause to be paid the eventual condemnation money which may be recovered against him in an action now pending in the Superior Court of Liberty County in said State, being an action sounding in damages brought by Edmund B. Way for the loss of a negro slave hired to the said Andrew J. Hull, & in which an attachment process has recently been taken out by the legal representative of the said Edmund B. Way against the said Andrew J. Hull, and the said W.P. Girardeau had become security on the [one word] Bond in said attachment, then this Bill of Sale shall be utterly null & void…” Witnessed by Henry M. Law, Wm. Cuming [or Cumming?] Handley on January 19, 1864. Recorded on January 18, 1864, by S.A. Fraser, Clerk. [Transcriber’s Note: Date document was witnessed was a day after date it was supposedly recorded. Clerk probably meant that it was recorded on February 18.] 

[For more information on the attachment, see p. 288, image 519, of this same record set.]