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ST JOHNS, Florida in the 1830s: 1 through 5 of 5

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  1. A Long Process
    date January 9, 1824 to May 6, 1824map ST JOHNS, Floridatags Slavery

    Charles Seton was still waiting for payment after the court ordered Eleazar Waterman to pay Seton for a loan and after he filed two petitions to the court to speed up the process. Waterman was in debt to Charles Seton for a couple of years. On June 11, 1823, the Superior Court of East Florida ordered the sheriff, James R. Hankam, to sell the slaves that belonged to Waterman. The slaves were supposed...

  2. Dexter Needs to Pay Up
    date May 29, 1827map ST JOHNS, Floridatags Slavery

    A promissory note is a contract detailing the terms of a promise or loan by one person to pay a sum of money to another person. Many people in the antebellum south used promissory notes when dealing with large amounts of money. John Day and Horatio S. Dexter entered into a promissory note together on October 5, 1824. The amount of the note was for six thousand four hundred and seventy nine dollars....

  3. Surrender the Slave
    date October 3, 1827 to October 5, 1827map ST JOHNS, Floridatags Slavery

    Many southerners used slaves as collateral regularly in the antebellum south in order to pay for some necessary item or to loan money from someone. Often, slaves were used as collateral to buy land. This process of using slaves as collateral dates back to the beginning of the slave trade. The main reason why slaves were used as collateral is that southerners considered slaves to be property and have...

  4. Debts Against the Estate
    date 1829map ST JOHNS, Floridatags Slavery

    Francis Pellicer had six heirs to his estate. In his will he divided his estate between his children. Dividing one's property up in a will was very common in the antebellum south. Most plantation owners, if not all, wrote up some sort of will to divide their estate up so their children and widow could have some type of inheritance. Slaves and property, such as land, were two types of things a child...

  5. Judge Douglas' Loss
    date May 10, 1837map ST JOHNS, Floridatags Economy, Law, Politics

    Three thousand five hundred dollars gone. In 1837, 3,500 dollars was a lot of money. Converting the sum to real 2005 terms, it would yield almost 69,000 dollars. The Panic of 1837 rendered every penny worthless. Judge Thomas Douglas of the Florida Supreme Court had been one of the wealthy class sponsoring the flurry of charters that brought unstable banks into existence, and now their failure meant...