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African Americans in Early Records of Liberty County, Georgia

Deed of Gift (Way/Way)

Enslaved Persons Named: Tenah

On December 2, 1846, Mary Way gifted to her daughter Mary Caroline Way “a certain negro girl Slave named Tenah together with the future issue and increase of the said negro named Tenah, all to be the property of my said daughter and her heirs forever.” Witnessed by Joseph Way, Junior, and Joseph Way, Senior. Probated by Joseph Way, Junior, on November 30, 1847, and recorded on December 31, 1847, by J.S. Bradwell, 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. M-N 1842-1854,” Record Book N, pp. 18. Image #420 (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3QP-54PV?i=419&cat=292358)