Enslaved Persons Named: Amy, Hetty
On October 22, 1859, William H. Martin, Liberty County, gifted to his daughter Flora M. Sheppard, wife of William G. Sheppard, “a negro woman named Amy about Seventeen or Eighteen years of age, and her infant child named Hetty.” They were put into a trust to be managed by William Hughes Jr. and Martin A. Martin. WItnessed by S.A. Fraser, Benjamin Darsey J.P. Recorded on November 23, 1859, by S.A. Fraser, Clerk.
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 O, p 556. Image #328. (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3QP-RSTM-1?i=327&cat=292358)