Enslaved Persons Named: Nancy, Miley, Sambo, Rinah, Tom, ?Lucy?, Hercules, Rachel, Jim, Betty, Maria, Amey, Rose, Sunday, Alley
On November 21, 1822, Thomas H. Handley, Richmond County, and William Law, Chatham County, agreed on a marriage contract with Harriet Spry Law, daughter of Nathanial Law, with Nathanial Law and Joseph Jones, of Liberty County, to be her trustees. Put into trust for her were “all those fifteen negroes named Nancy, Miley, Sambo, Rinah, Tom, ?Lucy? Hercules, Rachel, Jim, Betty, Maria, Amey [alt: Amy], Rose, Sunday and Alley, dated April 10, 1809, recorded in Book G, pages 1 and 2.” “As also those two other negroes, named Sary and Tenah, secured in a deed made by her aforesaid father, dated seventh October 1811, and recorded in the Clerk’s Office of said County in Book G folio 156.” Witnessed by Joseph Law Jr. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on February 25, 1823.
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. H-I 1816-1831,” Record Book I, 1822-1831, p. 28. Image #315 (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS42-SSRD-C?i=314&cat=292358)