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African Americans in Early Records of Liberty County, Georgia

Release of Lien (Busby-Baker/Lambert Estate)

Enslaved Persons Named: Joe

On February 4, 1850, William Jones, acting executor of the [John] Lambert estate, released “a certain Negroe Slave Joe which said Negroe is no longer considered subject to any lean [SIC] by virtue of a mortgage given by William S. Baker and B.A. Busby to T. Mallard, E. Stacy, W.Q. Baker, J.B. Mallard and William Jones Executors of the Estate of John Lambert bearing date the 5 day of April 1849.” Recorded on April 15, 1850, 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. 227. Image #524 (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3QP-5S1D?i=523&cat=292358)