They Had Names

African Americans in Early Records of Liberty County, Georgia

Used as Collateral (Handley/Anderson)

Enslaved Persons Named: Sharper, Jack, Isaac, Lima [or Lina], Gerry, Richard, Daphney, Susan, Mary, Affy, Bachus [alt: Bacchus], Primus

On March 1, 1845, Harriet Handley, Liberty County, used as collateral on a promissory note $1200 to George W. Anderson and John W. Anderson “copartners doing business as factors in the city of Savannah under the name and stile of George W. Anderson & Brother” “the following twelve negro slaves, together with the future issue and increase of the females viz. Sharper aged thirty years, Jack thirty, Isaac twenty, his wife Sima [or Lima] twenty five[,] Gerry twenty one, Richard twenty Daphney eighteen, Susan eighteen Mary thirty five, Affy forty, Bachus forty five and Primus twenty four.” She also used “the following property viz. my plantation in Liberty County lying and being on the waters of North and South Newport Rivers known as the Marsh, inherited by me from my father the late Nathaniel Law of Liberty County deceased said plantation being bounded on the north and west by lands of John Barnard South by lands of Gideon B. Dean, East by the connecting waters of North and South Newport Riverts, and containing two thousand acres more or less.” Witnessed by R.Y. Quarterman, T.W. Quarterman, J.P. Recorded on March 12, 1845, by J.S. Bradwell, Clk. [NOTE: Written on this deed (in faded handwriting) was “Satisfied ?? Clerk of Court Liberty County will mark the same on ?this.? Recorded Savannah 17 June 1848. G.W. Anderson & Brother. Recorded 3d July 1848 J.S. Bradwell, Clerk [of Liberty County Superior Court]. 

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. 303-4. Image #182-3 (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3QP-5WKH?i=181&cat=292358)