Enslaved Persons Named: Pompey
On February 25, 1847, William E. Screven [alt: Scriven], Liberty County, sold to John Jones, Liberty County, for $500 “the following property to wit a negro fellow named Pompey, between thirty and forty years of age, which negro fellow Pompey, I warrant to be sound and well in body and mind and to be a slave for life.” Witnessed by Joseph Jackson, G.W. Dunham, J.I.C. Recorded on May 8, 1847, by J.S. Bradwell, Clk.
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. 603. Image #352 (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3QP-5QR3?i=351&cat=292358)