Document, 5 January 1804, mortgage of Josiah Middleton (Chesterfield District, S.C.) to Duncan McRa[e] and Zachariah Cantey, merchants of Camden (Kershaw District, S.C.), for Middleton’s purchase of Tom, an African-American male slave, about twenty-eight years of age.

The mortgage was witnessed by Malcom McCullum, as sworn by justice of the peace John Fisher, and recorded by Chesterfield District Clerk Alex[ander] Craig in Book No. 2, pages 221 222.