Enslaved Persons Named: Jean, Murriah, Moses
On April 3, 1849, John W. Stacy, Liberty County, used as collateral on a promissory notes of $343.30 $205 to Way & King, factors of the city of Savannah, “the following negro slaves to wit Jean Murriah and Moses said property being under mortgage to executors John Lambert for the sum of five hundred sixty three dollars also the tract of land on which I now live on Gravel Hill consisting of about one hundred acres more or less…” Witnessed by W. Harrison, C. Hines, J.I.C. Recorded April 16, 1849, by J.S. Bradwell, Clerk. [NOTE: Written on this deed was: “Savannah January 2, 1851. Satisfied in full. Way & King. Recorded 3 March 1851. J.S. Bradwell, Clerk.” Also written on the deed was “+ Moses released. See page 232 of this book.]
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. 130. Image #476 (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3QP-5764?i=475&cat=292358)