Enslaved Persons Named: George
On September 4, 1823, Elizabeth Hughes, widow of Liberty County, gifted to her grandchildren William Hughes and Hetty Evelina Hughes, of the same county, “for & towards the better support & maintenance of them after my decease” “a certain male slave named George & a wool mattress.” She stipulated, however, that “I the said Elizabeth am permitted to use, keep and enjoy the said George & mattress during the full term of my natural life, without paying or yielding anything for the same.” Witnessed by Uriah Wilcox, Jesse Ham. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on February 20, 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. 72. Image #338 (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS42-SSRQ-N?i=337&cat=292358)