Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Family History of John M. Smith, James Baker and Their Descendants
In 1839 he bought a negro boy, aged 15 years, named King; paid $800 for him and raised him, and he stayed with him until some time after the war. He was sick a great deal of rheumatism.
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