Know all men by these presents that I John Gibson, agent and
attorney for Madame Catherine de Vilemont of Point Chicot in the
Territory of Arkansas in the United States of the north, for and in
consideration of Three Hundred and fifty dollars the receipt whereof
is hereby acknowledged, have bargained Sold and conveyed to
Stephen F. Austin his heirs and assigns a certain negro woman
named Fatime of about 40 years, a Slave for life the possession
whereof I, as agent aforesaid do guarantee to the Said Austin his
heirs and assigns against the claim of any person or persons
whatsoever— In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this
Sixth day of February 1828 at the Town of San Felipe de Austin,
in the Colony of Austin and the State of Cuahuila and Texas.
John Gibson [Rubric]
Attests
H. H. League [Rubric]
J. B. Austin [Rubric]
[Indorsed by Austin:] Bill of Sale from John Gibson for negro
woman alias Mary,