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African Americans in Early Records of Liberty County, Georgia

Deed of Gift (Quarterman/Way)

Enslaved People Named: Battia, Isaac, Sary

On October 4, 1849, W.E.W. Quarterman, Liberty County, gifted to his daughter Ann J. Way, wife of Moses W. Way, via her trustees Wm. [William] G. Martin and Lafayette S. Quarterman, “the following named negro slaves viz. Battia aged 25 twenty five years Isaac aged about six years & Sary aged eleven years…” If his daughter Ann was to have no children with Moses Way, the property was to revert to his estate. Witnessed by Wm. G. Martin, L.S. Quarterman. Recorded on March 12, 1851.

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. 309-10. Image #574-5 (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3QP-57J9?i=573&cat=292358)