Enslaved People Named: Sally, Jenny
On December 29, 1850, John W. Stacy sold to William Q. Baker for $900 “the following named negro Slaves to wit Sally and Jenny…” Stacy’s authority to make this sale was based on an April 15, 1850, petition made by him to the Superior Court judge “having jurisdiction in Equity” as the executor of Jonathan Bacon’s last will and testament, which had left “certain property both real and personal” to Mary Stacy wife of John W. Stacy, and since the property had been left in trust for her, the petition requested permission to sell a portion of it in order to vest the proceeds in property for the benefit of the trust. Permission had been granted by the court for Stacy to sell “the negroes named in said petition either at publick or private sale and that the proceeds of the sale to be invested in the purchase of other negros.” Witnessed by E. Stacy, Wm. [William] Jno Way. Recorded on March 1, 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. 299-301. Image #569-570 (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3QP-5WZG?i=569&cat=292358)