{"id":7123,"date":"2018-06-19T20:29:15","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T20:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7123"},"modified":"2018-06-19T20:48:24","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T20:48:24","slug":"amy-assigns-an-1807-debt-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7123","title":{"rendered":"Amy Assigns an 1807 Debt-Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7124\" style=\"width: 408px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7124\" class=\"wp-image-7124\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/sledd-debt1-300x291.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"398\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/sledd-debt1-300x291.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/sledd-debt1.jpg 597w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 100vw, 398px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7124\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Clagg to John Sledd, bond, 25 February 1807, James Clagg vs. John Sledd Jr., Bedford County, Virginia, Chancery Court; digital image, Library of Virginia, Virginia Memory Collection (Chancery Records), referenced as Bedford County Index Number 1827-013; downloaded 19 June 2018.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On 25 February 1807 James Clagg made out a &#8220;bond&#8221; indicating that he owed John Sledd 8 pounds, 11 shillings, and 4 pence. The debt had been accruing interest since 1799. At the time Clagg lived in Bedford County, Virginia, and Sledd was a resident of Amherst County. William Tinsley witnessed the signature of Clagg.<\/p>\n<p>Tinsley also witnessed the signature of Amy Sledd of the same date where she assigned the bond to Basdel Sledd &#8220;for value received.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Amy Sled is not named on the bond. Her relationship to John is not indicated. Basdel&#8217;s relationship to the other Sledds in the document is also not stated.<\/p>\n<p>It was atypical for a woman to assign a debt in 1807.<\/p>\n<p>The drama over this debt was just getting started in 1807.<\/p>\n<p>[stay tuned]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 25 February 1807 James Clagg made out a &#8220;bond&#8221; indicating that he owed John Sledd 8 pounds, 11 shillings, and 4 pence. The debt had been accruing interest since 1799. At the time Clagg lived in Bedford County, Virginia, and Sledd was a resident of Amherst County. William Tinsley witnessed the signature of Clagg. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[358],"class_list":["post-7123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-sledd-debt-bedford-county-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}