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African Americans in Early Records of Liberty County, Georgia

Used as Collateral (Andrews/Prendergast)

Enslaved Persons Named: Jack, Mary

On April 7, 1834, Joseph Andrews of Riceboro in Liberty County used as collateral on two promissory notes for a total of $1444.66 to Michael Prendergast of Savannah six lots of land in Riceboro “on the Graves End side” as well as “two negro slaves viz Jack a man about forty five years of age, and Mary his wife about the same age. They or the two named negro slaves, already mortgaged to Norman Wallace of the City of Savannah, and County of Chatham & State aforesaid, on the twelfth day of March in the present year and which mortgage is recorded in the Clerk’s Office of the Superior Court of the County of Liberty & State aforesaid on the thirty first day of March last past and year as aforesaid in Book K pages 143 & 144.” He also used as collateral all his household and kitchen furniture. Thomas J. Shepard had endorsed the promissory note. Witnessed by Samuel Way, Thomas J. Shepard, and George W. Dunham, J.P. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on April 8, 1834.

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. 150-2. Image #114-7 (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3QP-T923-V?i=114&cat=292358)