Enslaved Persons Named: Boston, Charles a Carpenter, Milly, Robert, Sopha, Bina, Georgia, Jenny, Phebe
On February 8, 1838, Eugene Bacon, Liberty County, used as collateral on a promissory note of $1900 to E.H. Bacon “the following negro Slaves (viz) Boston, Charles a Carpenter, Milly & her two children Robert & Sopha & Bina and her three children Georgia, Jenny & Phebe [alt: Phoebe] together with the future issue and increase of the females…” He also put up as collateral “my plantation known as the Zahara Plantation containing one hundred and fifty acres of land lying in the desert of Liberty County bounded by Est of Lewis on the south by Hope on the West & by Wm. J. Way on the North and East,” as well as two adjoining tracts of land lying on the Big Bay in Liberty County and the headwaters of the Horse Creek containing 900 acres of bay & pind land bounded east by lands of E.H. Bacon, north by lands of R.S. Baker and Thomas ?LeFils?, and south by Wheeler, Fleming and others. Witnessed by G.D. Beckwith, Thomas Bacon, R.S. Leonard. Beckwith probated the deed on February 10, 1838. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on February 23, 1838.
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. 467-8. Image #288 (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3QP-T9VP-6?i=287&cat=292358)