Location: Liberty County, Georgia
Deceased: Brown, Francis
Date Sworn: not listed
Appraisers: John Jones, John Robarts, Willm [William] West
Estate Administrator: Mr. Dowse
Court Officer: not listed
Date Recorded: not listed
Recording Official: not listed
Total Value of Property Appraised: 6,508 dollars
Value of enslaved persons: 5,625 dollars
Comments: Date of inventory not listed but likely in mid to late 1790’s, based on inventories before and after. [NOTE: The property was listed and totaled at $6203. Then the appraisers’ names were written. Following that, there was a list of five enslaved people: Sarah, Rachel, Will, Hannah, and Charitie, who were totaled at a value of $305. Then came the following words, which may apply only to the five enslaved people listed above them: “The above property being pointed out to us by Mr. Dowse as the property of Mr. Francis Brown deceased, under a bill of sale found among the papers of the said Estate, and on the day on which we met to appraise the said property, Mr. Jurdine who gave the Bill of Sale to Mr. Brown, informed us that since he gave the Bill of Sale, that the Administrators to his father’s Estate took the said property out of his hands legally sold it to pay his father’s debts, by whom he hired the said property and that he now only holds it under a third person claim who purchased the property at the Administrator’s Sale.” The three appraisers were then listed again, apparently as signatories to this.]
| Enslaved Person Named | Value | Description |
| March | 300 | “Fellow, 20 years old” |
| Winter | 300 | “Fellow, 20 years old” |
| Joe | 300 | “Fellow, 25 years old” |
| Affee | 270 | “Wench, 20 years old” |
| Cealey | 270 | “Wench, 20 years old” [alt: Celie] |
| Dinah | 270 | “Wench, 26 years old” |
| Middy | 270 | “Wench, 27 years old” |
| Rose | 150 | “Wench, 50 years old” |
| Sue | 60 | “Girl, 2 years old” |
| Saul | 40 | “Boy, 6 month old” |
| Moriah | 70 | “Girl, 3 years old” [alt: Mariah, Murriah] |
| Sibbee | 80 | “Girl, 5 years old” [Alt: Sibby, Siby] |
| Cloe | 100 | “Girl, 10 years old” [Alt: Chloe] |
| Ben | 50 | “Boy, 1 year old” |
| Sarah | 70 | “Girl, 4 years old” |
| Bess | 180 | “Girl, 11 years old” |
| London | 150 | “Boy, 10 years old” |
| Isaac | 150 | “Boy, 10 years old” |
| Sampson | 100 | “Fellow, 60 years old” |
| Peter | 75 | “Fellow, 70 years old” |
| Elsy | 150 | “Wench, 40 years old” |
| Lizzet | 200 | “Wench, 50 years old” |
| Clarrinda | 250 | “Under claim of D.R. Corker” [alt: Clarinda] |
| Robbin | 40 | “Child in arms” [alt: Robin] |
| Toney | 75 | “Boy” [alt: Tony] |
| Florah | 60 | “Girl” |
| Jean | 260 | “Wench” |
| Seamour | 75 | “Girl” |
| Linder | 60 | “Girl” [or Sinder] |
| Toby | 300 | “Fellow” |
| Cealy | 260 | “Black Cealy, Wench, 27 years old” |
| Tiller | 60 | “Child, 2 years old” |
| Quamaner | 250 | “Boy, 15 years old” |
| Moses | 75 | “Boy, 3 years old” |
| Tirah | 150 | “Girl, 6 years old” |
| Sarah | 25 | “Wench, 60 years old” |
| Rachel | 100 | |
| Will | 90 | “Boy” |
| Hannah | 60 | |
| Charitie | 30 |
Find the digitized original at:”Georgia Probate Records, 1742-1990,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G93L-P93S?cc=1999178&wc=9SYT-PT5%3A267679901%2C268032901 : 20 May 2014), Liberty > Wills, appraisements and bonds 1790-1850 vol B > image 222 of 689
These antebellum estate inventories and appraisals generally included all the deceased person’s “property,” including enslaved persons. Only those names are documented here for historical and genealogical purposes. Anyone interested in the actual property owned by the deceased may find it at the link at the bottom of the page. Names are listed in the original order, as this often gives very valuable information about family groupings or the age of children (who may be listed in age order).