Tarrant County, Texas Slave Records

Courthouse probate inventories, deed book bills of sale, and 1850/1860 Federal Census Slave Schedules for Tarrant County, Texas.

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Tarrant County Historical Records

Caroline Scott

Deed Book Bill of Sale (1867)
Location: Tarrant County, Texas

Conveyed in land & chattel deed of sale from Claiborne to Long for consideration of $621.

Solomon Cooper

Estate Division Account (1864)
Location: Tarrant County, Texas

Recorded in estate division between legal heirs of Cooper. Allotted to lot #3 in final decree.

Leah Spottswood

1860 Slave Schedule Metadata (1860)
Location: Tarrant County, Texas

Enumerated under slaveholder Moore in Tarrant County Schedule 2 (Slave Inhabitants). Age recorded as 20.