The papers include a slave bill of sale for Abram from A. M. Cochran to Edwin Skinner, 1865; three receipts for taxes signed by the U.S. Army, 1868; Hall County, Georgia, indenture for Henry Greenwood, aged ten, by Sallie Greenwood, his mother, to Edwin Skinner, 1879. Henry appears on the 1880 census listed as Henry Skinner, a ten year old black male with occupation listed as "works on farm."