Enslaved Persons Named: Clloe [alt: Cloe, Chloe], Candice [alt: Candace], William, Harry, Wallace, Bruce, Daphy [alt: Daphne, Daphny], Linda, Tim, Lavenia [alt: Lavinia], Abram, Jacob, Clarinda, Reese, John, Will, Linda (?), Julia, Be???
On August 17, 1841, John R. Wilder, of Savannah, put into trust for his wife Ann Drusilla Wilder, formerly Ann Drusilla Lewis, through her trustees Edward E. Pynchon, Edward W. Russell, and John Cunningham Junior, also of Savannah, “the following named negro Slaves to wit: Clloe [alt: Cloe, Chloe] and her children, Candice, William Harry Wallace Bruce Daphy [alt: Daphne, Daphny] Linda and her children Tim Lavenia [alt: Lavinia] Abram and Jacob Clarinda and her children Reese [one name can’t read] John Will [possibly Linda] Julia [starts with Be] Aged 90 year being all the said property real and personal having been the property of the said Ann D. Wilder before her marriage with said John R. Wilder (20) in number with future increase of the female slaves” in addition to four tracts of land (described below). The trust was to last for her natural life, and after her death to go to John R. Wilder during his life, and then to be inherited by their children, share and share alike. [Provision was made for other circumstances; see the original.]
The land was described as the tract known as the Desert plantation no. 1, which was said to have been part of the real Estate of the late Samuel Lewis, drawn by Ann Drusilla Wilder as one of his heirs, lying in Liberty County, and bounded north and west by lands of Wm. [William] J. way and E.H. Bacon, west by lands of Wm. [William] Hope and south by Desert plantation no. 2, drawn by E.E. Pynchon, containing about 490 acres; another tract of land known as Quarterman’s Hill, bounded on the east by lands of W.Q. Baker and R.F. Axson, north by lands of Joseph Quarterman, west by lands of G.W. Walthour, south by lands of George Howe, containing 461 acres; a tract of land in Liberty County known as the lot of 200 acres back of the said ?Hill? being one third of a tract of land originally granted to C. Hines; and a tract of land known as lot. No. 240 in the 5th district formerly [word] now Fayette County in Georgia, containing 202? Acres. Witnessed by Laurel S. Dickerson, Mary E. Parsons, Edward J. Harden, Not. Public. Recorded on October 18, 1841, 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. 322-4. Image #489-90 (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3QP-T92D-S?i=488&cat=292358)