[Manuscript Document Acknowledging Payment for Medical Care for "Negro Boy Jack" in Antebellum Arkansas]

Batesville, AR: January 11, 1840. [1]p., 4 x 5.5 inches, docketed on verso. Old horizontal fold, toning. Very good.  An interesting manuscript record of slave care in Arkansas in the 1830s. The short but impactful document reads in full: "Recd of William McNight Admin. Of Hiram West Decd three dollars for medical attention upon negro boy Jack in 1836. Batesville, Ark. Jan 11 1840 DJ Chipman." Such documents are increasingly rare in the market, and more uncommon than slave sale documents from the same period. Arkansas has just achieved statehood four years before the presetn document was written.