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African Americans in Early Records of Liberty County, Georgia

Used as Collateral (McCullough/Parsons)

Enslaved Persons Named: Frank, Isaac, Jacob, Sary, Bellah, Lucy, Chloe, Abby, old Chany [alt: Chaney], Chany, Francis, Mary

On March 1, 1845, James S. McCullough [alt: McCollough], Liberty County, used as collateral on a promissory note of $1522.33 to Mary E. Parsons, through her trustee George W. Walthour, “the following named negroes with the issue and increase of the female viz. Frank Isaac Jacob Sary Bellah Lucy Chloe Abby old Chany [alt: Chaney] Chany Francis and Mary, also all that tract or parcel of land known as Oak Lawn containing four hundred (400) acres more or less bounded as follows, on the north by C. Hines & Caroline Lewis, on the west by W.Q. Baker’s land and Eugene Bacon, on the south by E.H. Bacon, and on the east by lands of E.H. Bacon and Est. of Thomas Bacon.” Witnessed by Jas. H. ?Rafsell?, G.W. Dunham, J.I.C. Recorded on March 20, 1845, by J.S. Bradwell, Clk. [NOTE: Written on this deed was “Satisfied Jany 10 1848 G.W. Walthour. Recorded 10 Jany 1848 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. 309-10. Image #185-6 (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3QP-572F?i=184&cat=292358)