Used as Collateral (Maxwell-Cumming/Lambert)

On February 20, 1847, Laura E. Maxwell and S.M. Cumming used as collateral on a promissory note of $1500 to the executors of John Lambert’s estate (Thomas Mallard, E. Stacy, W.Q. Baker, W. Jones & John B. Mallard) “the following named slaves with the issue of the females, to wit Primus [or Prime], Bella, Nat, Nancy, Dembo,” as well as “all that tract or parcel of land known as the Lambert Plantation, and consisting of several tracts adjoining and containing in all about nine hundred acres more or less, in the county and state aforesaid, bounded on the north by land owned at present by Edmund B. Way and J.W. Winn, on the east by land of James W. Winn and Est. Thomas Baker on the south by lands of Dr. Samuel Way and on the west by land of Est. Quarterman Way, Est. Thomas Baker, Est. John Bacon and Edmund B. Way, together with a tract of pine land in the Shave settlement, containing one hundred acres more or less, and bounded at the time of Survey, by Wm. S. [or L.] Patrick on the east, and all other sides by vacant land.” Witnessed by C.C. Jones, W.E.W. Quarterman, J.I.C. Recorded on March 20, 1847, by J.S. Bradwell, Clerk.