Enslaved People Named: Celia, Elsey
On April 2, 1833, Joseph Jones, trustee for Susanna E. Jourdine in her marriage to Thomas McLean Stone, warranted that he had petitioned to the Liberty County Court of Ordinary to sell “two negro slaves named Celia & Elsey, the only property belonging to the minors of Thos. McLean Stone aforesaid by marriage of the said Susannah E. Jourdine and said application being granted by said court on the 7th Jany 1833.” He had given legal notice of the sale, and had put them up for sale at the Riceboro courthouse on Tuesday, April 2, 1833. He had sold both to Uriah Wilcox, Celia for $350 and Elsey for $350. He noted that the marriage contract between Jourdine and Stone was dated 28 June 1814 and was recorded in the Clerk’s Book G, Folio [page] 314 and 315 on July 4, 1814. Witnessed by Edwd [Edward] H. Bond, Jos. Andrews, J.P.L.C.
Following that deed was this one, dated April 2, 1833: “Georgia, Liberty County } To all to whom these presents may come know ye that I Uriah Wilcox for the sum of seven hundred dollars to me in hand paid by Jos. Jones (indemanally?) and not as trustee I do hereby set over, relinquish and transfer to the said Jos. Jones his heirs & Assigns all my right title interest claim or demand of in and to the above named slaves Celia and Elsey.” Witnessed also by Edward H. Bond and Jos. Andrews.
Both deeds were recorded on March 8, 1851, by J.S. Bradwell, Clerk. [COMMENT: Not known why the two deeds were recorded so long after the fact, and why they seem to contradict each other.]
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. 306-7. Image #573 (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3QP-5Q9M?i=572&cat=292358)