Enslaved Persons Named: Adam, Frank, Nancy, Jenny, Peggy, Pamela, Booby, Eliza, Sylvia
On May 14, 1844, Thomas Graves Way, Liberty County, used as collateral on a promissory note to Robert A. Lewis, of Savannah, $1000 “the following negro slaves Adam, Frank, Nancy, Jenny, Peggy, Pamela, Booby, Eliza, Sylvia…” Witnessed by Geo. [George] J. Bullock, Notary Public. Recorded on November 9, 1844, by J.S. Bradwell, Clerk [of Liberty County Superior Court]. [NOTE: Written on this deed was “I acknowledge satisfaction of the within mortgage in full and hereby appoint William B. Fleming as my attorney for me and in my name to cancel and satisfy the same on the Records of the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court in Liberty COunty as witness my hand and seal this first day of April 1845. Robt. A. Lewis. Signed & sealed in presence of Montgomery Cumming Not. Publick Recorded 6th May 1845 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 M, pp. 256-8. Image #162-3 (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3QP-54T6?i=161&cat=292358)