Manuscript document signed by John A. Bowling. Macon County, Alabama, 1 January 1859. 1 page, folio, 7 3/4 x 12 1/8 in., with probate court affidavit dated 14 February 1859 and signed by probate Judge Lewis Alexander. Docketed to verso. 

An Alabama probate court document from Macon County, Alabama for the estate of Daniel Hooks (1801-1858). An unnamed guardian for Daniel's daughter Flora Hooks (1842-1891) affirms the reception of seven named slaves, "Donn, Ann, Sam, Robt, John, Clark, + Harriet" who were "valued in the division of the negroes of said estate of $5400."

Daniel Hooks, born in Georgia, moved to Alabama with his family by 1815. He became a wealthy plantation owner. In the 1840 Federal Census, he owned 15 slaves. His holdings grew enormously over the next decade, with the 1850 Federal Slave Schedule recording that he enslaved 51 individuals. 

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