Enslaved Persons Named: Harry, Nancy, Sam, Kate, Nanny, Charlotte, Rosannah, June
On September 6, 1834, a group of Scottish heirs of William and Donald Fraser, deceased of Liberty County, Georgia, sold to Edwin H. Bacon “the following property viz eight negro slaves named Harry, Nancy, Sam, Kate, Nanny & Charlotte Rosannah & June…” The Scottish heirs, who were identified in several immediately previous pages of the deed book, signed their names as Simon Fraser, Isabel Fraser, Andrew Fraser, Donald Fraser, Isabel McLean, Hector McLean, Donald McIntosh, Mary McIntosh, John McIntosh, Andrew Fraser, Ann Fraser, John Fraser, Janett Fraser, Donald Fraser, Catherine Fraser, and their attorney was Simon Fraser. Witnessed by Thomas Q. Cassells, William Spencer. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on September 24, 1834.
[NOTE: Anyone researching this family will want to read the previous pages, 173-178. Also, see William Fraser’s 1821 will: https://theyhadnames.net/2018/04/09/liberty-county-will-william-fraser/. There are estate inventories for William and Donald Fraser on the TheyHadNames.net site.]
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, p. 179. Image #130 (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3QP-T9L6-G?i=129&cat=292358)