Title: John L. Polk Public Auction Inventory

Date/Date Range :   1831

Extent: 0.1 linear feet

Abstract:

This collection contains an 1831 auction inventory of John L. Polk. The inventory includes furniture, a slave woman, and a book, Letters From the South, by James Kirke Paulding.

Call number: MS-2777

Repository: University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN

Aquisition Information:

This collection was purchased.

Access Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Copyright:

The copyright interests in this collection remain with the creator. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library.

Preferred Citation:

[Identification of Item], John L. Polk Public Auction Inventory, MS-2777. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

This collection contains one folder.

This is most likely the inventory for the sale of the estate of John Lee Polk, brother to president James Knox Polk. John died on September 28, 1831, in Columbia, Tennessee.

This collection contains an 1831 auction inventory of John L. Polk. The inventory includes furniture, a slave woman, and a book, Letters From the South, by James Kirke Paulding.

• Tennessee -- History -- 1829-1837.
• Slavery.