Enslaved Persons Named: Mary, Lorena, Maria
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Mr. S.S. Moody,
This is to certify that the negroes Mary, Lorena, & Maria which I herewith send to you are not given but bound to my daughter Mrs. Elizabeth Moody. You must consider them my property & subject at any time to my order. I shall pay taxes for them & should I not call for them nor any portion of them before my death they must then be considered a part of my estate & subject to distribution among my heirs as the rest of my property may be.”
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Signed by Jonathan Bacon on April 5, 1842. Witnessed by Enoch Daniel, Edwin H. Bacon, Notary Public. Recorded on March 26, 1842, 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. 345. Image #502 (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3QP-T9L9-6?i=501&cat=292358)