Enslaved Persons Named: Polidore [alt: Polydore], Peter, Tom, Sela, little Cloe [alt: Chloe], Nanny, Crawford, Mingo, Caty, Maria, Little Bob, Henry, Laurance [alt: Laurence, Lawrence], Charlotte
On April 25, 1837, Richard S. Baker, planter of Liberty County, used as collateral on a promissory note of $1228.48 to Uriah Wilcox, trader of Liberty County, “the following negro slaves named Polidore [alt: Polydore], Peter, Tom, Sela, little Cloe [alt: Chloe], Nanny, Crawford, Mingo, Caty, Maria, Little Bob, Henry, Laurance [alt: Laurence, Lawrence] & Charlotte (fourteen in number)…” Also used as collateral was a tract of land in Walthourville, Liberty County, “where the said Baker now plants originally granted to John Winn and purchased by the said Baker of Thomas Bacon, deceased,” containing 260 acres and bounded south by land belonging to Baker and on all other sides by land belonging to the estate of Thomas Bacon. Witnessed by R.S. Leonard. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on May 14, 1837. [NOTE: Satisfaction acknowledged as of April 23, 1839. Satisfaction recorded on May 2, 1839.]
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. 396-7. Image #250-1 (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3QP-T9KP-7?i=249&cat=292358)