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Lot 20
Jackson, Andrew. Autograph Document Signed "A.J" and "Jackson" in the text, on verso of ADS "F.T. Crabb," one page, 10 x 7½ in., [Melton’s Bluff, Alabama Territory], September 24, 1818. Penned in full by Jackson: "Doctor Crabb acpts P[ayment] with Jackson & Hutchings up to 24th Sept. 1818. Paid Doctor Crab--one hundred dollars, as follows, the within accts $28.87½ / In cash by A.J. 71.12 ½ [total] 100.00." Light soiling, chipped at edges. Fine condition.
The bill is headed "Doctor Crabb … to the ["Estate" rubbed out] farm of Jacksons & Hutchings." Dated August 3, 1818, the list comprises "Eighteen bushels of corn," "one dusen & a half of fodder," "twenty three pounds of hogs lard," and "cash paid for cotton seed," a total of $28.87½. Dr. Crabb has handwritten the following, "I do hereby certify that the above account is just & true. Melton Bluff, Sepr. 25th 1818. F.T. Crabb. Received all demands in full this 25th Sepr 1818 of Jackson & Hutchings for Medical Services P[ayment] witness our hands & seal Crabb & Rousseau." According to Kay K. Moss in "Southern Folk Medicine, 1750-1820" (Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 1999), hog's lard was used by doctors as a cure for "the itch" and ears of corn were boiled and used as a way of inducing perspiration. Doctors Crabb and Rousseau attended to Jackson’s slaves.
On January 14, 1818, in a letter published in her book, "Letters from Alabama" (Washington: 1830), Anne Newport Royall told of her stay in Melton’s Bluff, then part of Mississippi Territory. In part, "Melton’s Bluff…takes its name from a person by the name of John Melton.… Here is a very large plantation of cotton and maize, worked by about sixty slaves, and owned by General Jackson, who bought the interest of old Melton…" After John Melton died in 1816, Jackson purchased his plantation and his slaves from his son.
Jackson had a business partnership with John Hutchings and John Coffee (who married Jackson's niece and who fought with Jackson in the War of 1812 and against the Creek Indians). Hutchings’ son later married Coffee’s daughter. Hutchings died in 1817, but the partnership of Jackson & Hutchings continued to run the plantation.
Present is a photocopy of a bill from Crabb & Rousseau to Jackson dated July 24, 1818, one month earlier, for $260 listing expenses for "medical att[ention[ & medicine with Black family promiscuously from Octr 1817 up to 1st May 1818," "attend & med. Yellow Mary," "Delivery & att. three negro women," and "att on six negroes this month." There is no indication on this bill that it was paid. The July 24, 1818, bill, with no handwritten notations or signature by Jackson, recently sold at public auction for $5676.25. The receipt offered here has 31 words and calculations, including "A.J." and "Jackson," in Jackson's hand.
Estimated Value $4,000 - 5,000.
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