Payment Promise Note, Greenville, S.C., April 8, 1885

Title

Payment Promise Note, Greenville, S.C., April 8, 1885

Accession Number

2024.16.2.237

Accession Date

18 November 2025

Accession Creator

Meadow Knapp

Description

W.Z.M. Wilson promised to pay $90 to Walton, Whann &Co.
Miscellaneous writing on the back

Date

April 8, 1885

Storage Location

Box 28, Folder #7

Concerns

Bottom right corner torn

Text

Front:
WALTON, WHANN & CO., WILMINGTON, DEL.

$90.00 Greenville SC [Ga., struck out] Apl 8 1885

On or before the Fifteenth day of October next, I promise to pay WALTON, WHANN & CO., or Order, Ninty - 100 Dollars with interest at Twelve per cent, per annum from date, if not paid at maturity.
This sum may be discarged with Cotton, at the following scale of prices for the several grades: Middling, fifteen cents per pound; Low Middling, fourteen and one-half cents per pound; Good Ordinary, fourteen cents per pound; Ordinary, thirteen and one-half cents per pound, delivered free of expense to said payees or their representative, good merchantable condition, on car at my nearest Railroad De-pot, provided delivery is made on or before the maturity of this Note, but not otherwise.
[The Consideration of this Note is Whann's Plow Brand Raw Bone Superphospate, sold to me by said payees. They expressly refuse to make any warranty of the same, or any representation as to its quality or value, leaving me to rely upon the fact only that the same has been inspected under Laws of the State of Georgia. And in consideration of the option to pay in Cotton as above stated, I accept said Guano on these terms, and waive and renounce my rights to the benefit of any Exemption or Homestead under the Laws, except as to Wearing Apparel and Three Hundred Dollars' worth of Household and Kitchen Furniture and Provisions. In case of suit, all expenses of collection will be paid by me. struck out]
Witness:

Back:
No. 14
Name WMZ Wilson
Post Office
Station
Currency
Cotton 585 lbs
When Due