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African Americans in Early Records of Liberty County, Georgia

Estate Settlement (Hillyer)

Enslaved People Named: Sylvia, Rose, Jacob, Thomas, Harriet, Eve, Phillis, Nancy, Georgia, Amy

On July 17, 1862, S.G. Hillyer stated in a document that he had received from the executors of the estate of Susan J. Thomson, Wm. G. Thompson and Edward J. Delegal, “the following property to wit Sylvia, Rose, Jacob, Thomas, Harriet, Eve, Phillis, Nancy, Georgia, Amy, being their proportionable part of the property due my children by the will of the deceased and also the further sum of one hundred and fifty dollars & thirty two cents in full, entire & complete satisfaction of all the right, title, interests, property claim or demand I have or might have in & upon the estate of the said Susan J. Thomson deceased…” He stated that the executors were entirely discharged of any further claim upon the estate. Witnessed by Geo. R. Anderson, E.W. Delegal. Probated by E.W. Delegal before S.A. Fraser, Clk, and recorded on August 12, 1862, by S.A. Fraser. 

Source: Family Search.org. Liberty County Superior Court “Deeds and mortgages, 1777-1920; general index to deeds and mortgages, 1777-1958,” Film: Deeds & Mortgages, v. O-P 1854-1870,” Record Book P, p. 232 (image #488). (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3QP-RSTF-D?i=487&cat=2923580)