city of iowa, iowa city, iowa. here is a contract. thomas cox to william morrison. he bought the slaves to use as collateral to borrow money. in this case, he borrowed $400 from the merchant prince, william morrison randall, his wife, and , their three-year-old son. the reason cox was willing to pay more for the family is because it was pretty obvious that nance's mother was pregnant and she was going to have another baby in four or five months. you can see the age, "a female about two months old." that proved to be nance. all the subsequent census records point to the fact that nance was born in 1813. this was signed in 1814 by thomas cox. so if his random