1860, Unnamed, Female, Legal (Dowry)

Title: 1860, Unnamed, Female, Legal (Dowry)
Description: An enslaved woman owned by Colonel John Billups married a free man. A license then permitted her to live with her husband for $50 a year.

Partial Transcript: "Bernardo Arze was a barber who claimed to be a Mexican. Perhaps he was. But he married a negro woman belonging to Colonel Billups and paid the town $50 per annul for her to live away from her master's lot. This license was graded but all free negroes and those slaves living apart from their masters' own sight had to pay it."
Event Type: Legal
Action Status: Completed
Date: 1860
Date Certainty: Questionable
Location: Athens-Clarke County, Georgia
Source: Annals of Athens, Georgia; Page 176
Freedom Status: Enslaved
Enslaver: Colonel John Billups
Author: Augustus Longstreet Hull
Additional Participant: Bernardo Arze