Enslaved Persons Named: Bell, Sam, Moses, Henry, Lydia, Agrippa, Ned, Diana
On May 10, 1832, William Hughes, planter of Liberty County, acknowledged that he had entered into a promissory note of $360 to the Justices of the Liberty County Inferior Court on May 25, 1826, with William N. Way acting as security for the note. In order to indemnify William N. Way against loss because of this, Hughes put up as collateral “all these eight negroes, already mortgaged to Uriah Wilcox of said county, and the issue of the females, also mortgaged as aforesaid, to wit, Bell [alt: Bella ?], and her children Sam, Moses and Henry; Lydia and her son Agrippa; and a male slave named Ned, also Diana a girl slave about ten years old.” Witnessed by Wm. [William] J. Way, J.I.C.L.C. Recorded on May 15, 1832, in Liberty County Superior Court. This deed was marked as satisfied in full as of April 27, 1835, and recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on May 5, 1835.
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 K, 1831-1838, pp. 42-3. Image #57-8 (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3QP-T9KX-8?i=56&cat=292358)