Enslaved Persons Named: July
On February 12, 1836, John Girardeau, planter of Liberty County, used as collateral on a promissory note of $190 to Uriah Wilcox, trader of Liberty County, “a certain male slave named July, also a certain tract of land situate in said County, on which the said Girardeau now resides, containing two hundred acres more or less bounded on the east by lands of John S. Quarterman & Robert Quarterman, on the south by lands of William P. Girardeau, on the west by lands of John Dunwoody, and on the north by lands formally [formerly] belonging to the estate of Daniel G. Holmes.” The promissory note was said to have been originally drawn by William E.W. Quarterman on February 3, 1836, to John Girardeau, and Girardeau turned it over to Wilcox and used his property to secure it. Witnessed by George W. Dunham, W.P. Girardeau. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on February 15, 1836.
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. 286-7. Image #194 (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3QP-T9KD-W?i=193&cat=292358)