Enslaved Persons Named: Chloe, Patience, Clarissa, Rachell, Derry, Anna, Patty, Prince, Almira
On March 2, 1836, James Earl, of Liberty County, and Ann E. Mara, a widow of Liberty County, entered into a marriage contract, naming Benjamin B. King and David Anderson as her trustees. The trustees were given control of Ann E. Mara’s property, which included “the following named slaves being nine in number viz. Chloe, Patience, Clarissa, Rachell, Derry, Anna, Patty, Prince, Almira, with the future issue and increase of the females. Also included was “various sums of money due the said Ann E. Mara on notes of hand and open accounts by one Joseph Austin, amounting to the sum of three thousand dollars, also various other sums of money due to the said Ann E. Mara by one Busby also other sums of money due or hereafter to become due to the said Ann E. Mara, also an undivided interest in a certain tract of land situate in the county of Liberty and State of Georgia in the vicinity of the town of Riceborogh, adjoining lands now owed by Nath’l [Nathaniel] Varnedoe and James Robarts containing twelve hundred acres.” Witnessed by M. Hall McCallister, Henry J. V[??]. J.P. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on April 26, 1836.
See also: https://theyhadnames.net/2019/11/11/transfer-of-trusteeship-earle-chapman/.
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. 312-3. Image #207-8 (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3QP-T9KK-D?i=206&cat=292358)