February 16, 1855

Trust Sale of Land and Negroes

    By virtue of a deed of trust, executed to me on the 20th day of June, 1850, by Stephen W. Lewelling, and recorded in the office of the Probate Court of Marshall county, Miss., in deed book P, on page 165, 166, 167 and 168, I shall, on the first Monday in March, 1855, in front of the court-house door, in the town of Holly Springs, sell to the highest bidder for cash, a tract of land, situate in the State of Mississippi, county of Marshall, being section No. 13, township No. 2, range No. 2 west, it being the same heretofore occupied and cultivated as a plantation by the said Stephen W. Lewelling, containing six hundred and forty acres of land, more or less.

    Also, at the same time and place, and under said deed of trust, several likely Negroes, to-wit: George, his wife, and several children.

    This property will be sold for certain purposes mentioned in said trust.  The title is believed to be undoubted; but as I act only as trustee, such title as have will be passed to the purchasers.

WILLIAM B. SMITH, Trustee
Memphis Eagle and Enquirer, Memphis, TN