Enslaved Persons Named: Prince
On February 6, 1840, William Hughes acknowledged receipt of $338 from William Smith Junior “in full payment for a Negro Boy named Prince aged about five or six years old which Boy I warrant to be sound and healthy…” Witnessed by James M. Smith. Recorded on March 12, 1840, by E. Way, 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. K-L 1831-1842,” Record Book L, 1838-1842, pp. 166. Image #411 (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3QP-T9KN-H?i=410&cat=292358)