Enslaved Persons Named: Not named
“Sir: As your last bond became due in November last I am under the necessity of applying to you for payment some years past my late husband when at the northward sold a parcel of Negroes the property of my Daughters, and as my wish is that they should not be sufferers I mean to apply the amount of your bonds to the Purchase of Negroes in order to replace them sold, mentioning this circumstance I am convinced your Humanity will be so far interested as to come to an amicable arrangement and for that purpose I have requested my Son in Law Mr. Burke to Deliver you this letter your satisfying him will be equally satisfactory to your obedient servant.
White Oak January 18th, 1792 [Signed] E. Elbert
To Col. John Baker
Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on April 13, 1792.
Source: Family Search.org. Liberty County Superior Court “Deeds and mortgages, 1777-1920; general index to deeds and mortgages, 1777-1958,” Film: Deeds & Mortgages, v. A-B 1777-1793,” Record Book B, 1787-1793, p. 472. Image #517 (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSLZ-FGQ5?i=516)