Marshal Sale

Elijah Graves                                                                                                Circuit Court, U.S.     Vs                                                                                                      Fi Fa

John W. Ainsworth &                                                                      to May Term 1840

Mary Holliday & Securities

By virtue of the above stated fi fa to me directed from the Circuit Court of the Unites States for the Southern District of Mississippi; I will sell for cash at the courthouse door of Gallatin, Copiah County, on the 3^rd Monday of February, the 17^th day of the month, all the right, title, and interest of Mrs. Mary Holliday in and to the following described property, to wit: slaves Arthur, Dandridge, Emily and her child, Jim, Sarah, Hamet, Caroline, and Lucy and her child.

Levied on as the property of Mrs. Mary Holliday, one of the defendants to satisfy debts and costs in the above stated case.

                                                                                                William M. Guin, Marshal

                                                                                                By C.G. Gilmer, Deputy

Gallatin, February 8, 1840

Published in the February 8, 1840 Southern Star in Copiah County, MS.

Transcriber’s note: Mary Holliday is Mary Ainsworth Holliday, the widow of John J. Holliday and sister of John W. Ainsworth.