Enslaved Persons Named: Nancy, Joe, Phoebe, Jack, Cato, Betsy, Paul, Flora, Nancy, Ginny, Dianna, Jacob, Patty, Abby, Forty More, Sarah, ? Nan ?, Mary, Margaret, Sam, Sambo, Clarissa, William, Rose, Toney, John, Peggy, Cristena [alt: Christina], Harriet
On July 28, 1847, Sarah C. Ward, guardian of Wallace and Georgia Ward, minors of William Ward of Liberty County, sold to Geo. [George] W. Walthour for $8700 “the following twenty nine negroes viz Nancy, Joe, Phoebe, Jack, Cato, Betsy, Paul, Flora, Nancy, Ginny, Dianna, Jacob, Patty, Abby, Forty More, Sarah, ? Nan ?, Mary, Margaret, Sam, Sambo, Clarissa, William, Rose, Toney, John, Peggy, Cristena [alt: Christina] and Harriet…” Sarah Ward executed this deed in New Haven, Connecticut, after having applied to the Liberty County Superior Court judges for permission to put the enslaved people up for sale at the Hinesville courthouse on April 6. Walthour was the highest bidder. Recorded by Liberty County Superior Court Clerk J.S. Bradwell on September 9, 1847.
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. 644-5. Image #373 (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3QP-5ZM5?i=372&cat=292358)