Enslaved Persons Named: Rose, Charles, Patty, Jinny, Phillis, Will, Phoebe, Harriet, Lavinia, Rose, Will, William, London
On November 20, 1846, William T.E. Baker, Lydia E.Q. Baker (his wife) and John S. Andrews, her trustee, sold to Benjamin W. Allen for $1325 “certain negro slaves, named Rose, Charles, Patty and Jinny.” These enslaved individuals were said to have been part of the estate that Lydia E.Q. Baker brought into her marriage with William T.E. Baker, and were sold with her permission. The deed transferring her premarital property into a trust with John S. Andrews as trustee was said to be dated July 20, 1842, and recorded in the Liberty County Superior Court clerk’s office, and named “the following named slaves Rose, Charles, Patty, Phillis, Will, Phoebe, Harriet, Lavinia, Rose, Will, Phillis, William and London.” Witnessed by John Girardeau, R.Q. Andrews, J.P. Recorded on 1? December 1846 by J.S. Bradwell, Clerk.
Sources: 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. 543-5. Image #320-1 (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3QP-53VX?i=319&cat=292358)
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. 104. Image #79 (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3QP-5492?i=78)