Manuscript document signed. Stafford County, Virginia, 22 March 1823. 1 page, 4to, docketed to verso. 

An early Kentucky slave bill of sale for “a certain negro girl slave named Hester about thirteen years of age sound and healthy.” She was sold by Strother Tickland for $300 to John L. Hickman for David M. Hickman of Bourbon Co, Kentucky.

David Hickman (1749-1825), originally from Virginia, was the son of Colonel James Lewis Hickman, Sr. (1724-1816), a veteran of the Revolutionary War who was granted land in Kentucky in thanks for his service. David served in the War of 1812 as a saddler. He is enumerated in the 1810 Census as enslaving 14 individuals, but only 4 individuals by 1820.

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