Enslaved Persons Named: Big Cainib [alt: Canib], Caesar, Big Harry
On January 15, 1844, Edwin H. Bacon, Liberty County, used as collateral on a promissory note for $843.29 to Francis H. Hoff of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a tract of land in Liberty County near Walthourville, on the waters of the Big Bay, “bounded on the north by lands of Wm. Hope, on the east by lands of Wm. [William] J. Way and Charlton Hines, on the south by lands of Richard S. Baker & on the west by lands of Zorn & Maulden & Anderson containing eight hundred acres more or less, also the following negro Slaves, namely: Big Cainib [alt: Canib], Caesar & Big Harry.” Witnessed by R.J. Bacon, F.C. Bacon. Signed at Walthourville. Recorded on January 22, 1844, by E. Way, Clerk. [Written on this deed was “Satisfied in full. April 29, 1853. Francis H. Hoff. Entered this 7th Oct. 1853. S.A. Fraser, C.S.C.L.C.”]
[ANALYSIS: A Canib was named in the 1812 estate inventory of Thomas Bacon, Senior, who appears to have been Edwin H. Bacon’s grandfather, through his father Thomas Bacon Jr, who died in Philadelphia in 1834. Canib was again mentioned in Thomas Bacon Jr’s 1835 estate inventory.]
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 M, pp. 160-1. Image #108 (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3QP-579H?i=107)