Enslaved Persons Named: John
On January 1, 1850, Thomas B. Coleman, formerly of Liberty County but currently of Bridgeport, Connecticut, sold to William G. Martin, Liberty County, for $540 “one certain negro slave about twenty eight years of age named John..” Witnessed by Dwight Morris, Daniel Wheeler, J.P. of the town of Fairfield.
A subsequent deed directed William G. Martin to pay to William S. Norman of Liberty County $540 for the above transaction.
Following that was a deed in which William J. Coleman and John Coleman relinquished their claim “to a certain negro man named John both for ourselves and our heirs and assigns forever unto William G. Martin…”
Recorded on March 27, 1850, by J.S. Bradwell, Clerk [of Liberty County].
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. 220. Image #521 (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3QP-54SS?i=520&cat=2923580)