Copies of instruments relating to personal property, including bills of sale and chattel mortgages, giving type of instrument, date, names of grantor (mortgagor) and grantee (mortgagee), amount of money involved, description of property, signature of grantor, certification of notary, and date of recording. Includes sale of slaves prior to 1864. Also contains: Incorporation Record, 1851-1874; Releases, 1851-1877; Bond Record, 1851-1902; Conditional Contracts of Sale, 1916-1920; Civil Commissions, 1851-1923. Record is chronological by recordation date. Each volume indexed alphabetically by names of grantor and grantee to 1874 when a separate index was then kept. Handwritten December 1, 1851-July 25, 1925; typed October 2, 1925 onward.