Enslaved Persons Named: Bell, Cate
On March 16, 1841, Oliver Stevens released from a mortgage dated August 8, 1836 that he held against Wm. [William] Hughes as the administrator for U. Wilcox “the Negro woman named Bell and her child named Cate who was born since the date of said note but is included as the future issue of said woman Bell.” This deed specified that “six negroes” had been the collateral used on the original mortgage, which was said to have been recorded in Book K, p. 338, on September 12, 1836. This deed recorded on April 18, 1841, by E. Way, Clerk.
In the next recorded deed, on March 15, 1841, William Hughes sold to William Jones for $450 “a certain negro woman named Bell and her child Cate…” Witnessed by Oliver Stevens. Recorded on April 18, 1841, by Edward 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. 267. Image #462 (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3QP-T92V-3?i=461&cat=292358)