Location: Liberty County, Georgia
Deceased: Baker, Martha
Date Sworn: 1809-03-22
Appraisers: Sampson E. Ball, Jesse Cooper, Jesse Warren, Charles Dicks, Noble Hayns
Estate Administrator: John & Richard Baker [not named as executors or administrators but showed the estate to the appraisers and named as children of Martha Baker who were “now of age”]
Court Officer: John Stacy, J.P.
Date Recorded: 1810-01-29
Recording Official: A. Forrester
Total Value of Property Appraised: $16660
Value of enslaved persons: $15780
Comments: Lots divided as follows:
3 — John Baker
4 — Richard Baker
Enslaved | Value | Desc. | Lot |
Jack | 550 | 1 | |
?nger | 450 | [First letter looks like K but that doesn’t make sense] | 1 |
Charles | 400 | 1 | |
Ceasar | 300 | [alt: Caesar] “Old” | 1 |
Lizza | 350 | 1 | |
Hannah | 400 | 1 | |
Miley | 350 | “O Miley” [“O” presumably stands for “Old”] [alt: Milly] | 1 |
Leah | 300 | 1 | |
Miley | 250 | “Little” [alt: Milly] | 1 |
Minder | 200 | [alt: Minda] | 1 |
Will | 175 | 1 | |
Venus | 150 | “O Venus” [“O” presumably stands for “Old”] | 1 |
Dyannah | 150 | [alt: Diana, Dianna] | 1 |
Bram | 500 | 2 | |
Bob | 450 | 2 | |
Ceasar | 450 | [alt: Caesar] “L Ceasar” [“L” presumably stands for Little] | 2 |
Cudjo | 275 | [alt: Cudjoe] | 2 |
Tenah | 400 | 2 | |
Nanny | 400 | “L Nanny” [“L” presumably stands for Little] | 2 |
Moll | 350 | 2 | |
Hager | 275 | [alt: Hagar] “L Hager” [“L” presumably stands for Little] | 2 |
Peggy | 350 | 2 | |
Saky | ?10 | [maybe means Sucky or Sukey] | 2 |
Doll | 200 | 2 | |
Lydia | 100 | 2 | |
Hager | 150 | [alt: Hagar] “O Hager” [“O” presumably stands for “Old”] | 2 |
Joe | 500 | 3 | |
Scipio | 450 | 3 | |
Peter | 450 | 3 | |
Dick | 250 | 3 | |
Nanny | 450 | “B Nanny” [“B” presumably stands for “Big”] | 3 |
Livey | 400 | or Levey [maybe short for Lavinia?] | 3 |
Murriah | 300 | 3 | |
Nancy | 325 | 3 | |
Frank | 300 | “O Frank” [“O” presumably stands for “Old”] | 3 |
Frank | 125 | “L Frank” [“L” presumably stands for Little] | 3 |
Chloe | 150 | [alt: Cloe] | 3 |
Judy | 300 | 3 | |
Peter | 75 | “L Peter” [“L” presumably stands for Little] | 3 |
Frank | 300 | ||
Moris | 450 | [alt: Morris] | |
Scipio | 300 | “L Scipio” [“L” presumably stands for Little] | |
January | 325 | ||
Mary | 350 | ||
Sary | 350 | ||
Venus | 350 | ||
Clarinder | 350 | [alt: Clarinda] | |
Sue | 300 | ||
Binah | 325 | ||
Charlott | 90 | [alt: Charlotte] | |
Violet | 100 | ||
Jack | 50 | “L Jack” [“L” presumably stands for Little] | |
Mol | 50 | [alt: Moll] [“L” presumably stands for Little] | |
Lary | 150 | “O Lary” [“O” presumably stands for “Old”] [Looks like Lary but Sary would make more sense] |
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. E-G 1801-1816,” Record Book G, p. 53. Image #326 (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3QL-J96C-9?i=325&cat=292358)