Enslaved Persons Named: Jim, Chloe
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State of Georgia, Liberty County, 11 May 1822 } Whereas Samuel Jones, administrator of all & singular the goods & chattels, rights & credits, which were of Elias Cassels, late of said County deceased, by virtue of an order from the honorable the Justices of the Inferior Court of said County, then sitting for ordinary [probate] purposes, to sell a part of the personal estate of the said Elias Cassels deceased at public auction, to the highest bidder, & agreeably to the laws of said State, did, after giving due & legal notice, set up & expose to sale, at public auction, at the Court-house in Riceborough in said County, on the eleventh day of May in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred & twenty two, between the hours of ten & four, two certain negro slaves; that is to say, a male slave named Jim, & his wife named Chloe, belonging to the estate of Elias Cassels aforesaid, deceased; which slaves were knocked off to Uriah Wilcox, of said County, for the sum of eight hundred dollars; which sum was the highest & best bid that could be obtained for said slaves.
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On May 1822, Uriah Wilcox signed over Jim and Chloe to Nathaniel Varnedoe. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on probably May 8, 1824.
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. 92-3. Image #348 (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS42-SSRH-L?i=347&cat=292358)