Gift of Virginia Nelson Anding La Charite on 28 April 2002.
Processed by Ellen Strong in 2002.
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Indenture conveying Martha from Charles Story Newell to Mary Jane Ellis, Special Collections Research Center, William & Mary Libraries.
Indenture, 1855 February 23, conveying six-year-old enslaved girl, Martha, daughter of Charles and Sarah, from Charles Story Newell, Copiah County, Mississippi to Mary Jane Ellis, also of Copiah County.