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African Americans in Early Records of Liberty County, Georgia

Colonial Georgia Estate Inventory – Robert Homer

Parish: St. John
Deceased: Homer, Robert “late of the Musqueta Shore”
Notification Date: 1762-08-10
Date Sworn: 1762-10-09
Official: Audley Maxwell, J.P.
Appraisers: Audley Maxwell, Josiah Powell, Abraham Williams, Samuel Jeanes [possibly should be Jones?]
Estate Administrator: Samuel Miller
Inventory Date (if given): 1762-10-10
Total Value of Property Appraised: 268.0.0 pounds
Value of enslaved persons: 268.0.0 pounds
Comments: All value amounts are in pounds. Only the enslaved people in the inventory are listed below. Please see the original for other parts of the inventory. Written on the document was “Recorded in Book C folio 168.”

Inventory of property on Musqueta Shore. [NOTE: It is possible that this is a phonetic reference to the “Mosquito Shore.”]

Enslaved Person NamedValueDescription
Plymoth45.0.0“Negro Man” [Alt: Plymouth]
London45.0.0“Negro Man”
Rodger01.0.0“Negro Man” [alt: Roger]
Cesar50.0.0“Negro Man” [Alt: Caesar]
Boston40.0.0“Negro Man”
Glasgoe47.0.0“Negro Man” [Alt: Glasgow]
[no name listed]50.0.0“Wench and two small children”

Source: “Colonial Government, Estate Records, RG 49-1-1, Georgia Archives,” Colonial Estate Records, held by Georgia Archives Virtual Vault; accessed online at: https://vault.georgiaarchives.org/digital/collection/corp/id/2544/rec/169.

These antebellum estate inventories and appraisals generally included all the deceased person’s “property,” including enslaved persons. Only those names are documented here for historical and genealogical purposes. Anyone interested in the actual property owned by the deceased may find it at the link at the bottom of the page. Names are listed in the original order, as this often gives very valuable information about family groupings or the age of children (who may be listed in age order).