They Had Names

African Americans in Early Records of Liberty County, Georgia

Used as Collateral (Baker-Busby/Lambert)

Enslaved Persons Named: Hagar, Joe, Prince, Eliza, Jim, Grace, Elsy, Nanny, Dicky, Summer, Ishmael, Lucy, Eliza, Harriet

On April 5, 1849, W.S. Baker and B.A. Busby, Liberty County used as collateral on a promissory note of $3750 to the executors of the John Lambert estate — Thomas Mallard, Ezra Stacy, William Q. Baker, William Jones and John B. Mallard — “the following named Slaves with the issue of the females viz. Hagar, Joe Prince Eliza & her three children Jim Grace & Elsy Nanny Dicky Summer also Ishmael Lucy Eliza Harriet.” Witnessed by Thomas Q. Cassels, S.A. Fraser, J.I.C. Recorded on April 17, 1849, 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. 133-4. Image #477-8 (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3QP-5QPM?i=476&cat=292358)