Lease (Lambright/Ward)

On February 15, 1824, Joseph Law Senior, executor of the estate of James Lambright, of Liberty County, applied to the Liberty County Superior Court for permission to … He stated that “whereas the said James died under serious pecuniary embarrassment and has left a widow a most worthy female and two lovely little boys,” and suggested that in order “to secure to the creditors equal justice and save a lovely family from ruin that time be given to the ex’or to the first of March 1828 to collect the debts due the sd estate, to which the annual nett proceeds of the slaves belonging will be added.” The signatures of the estate’s creditors were added, signifying they agreed. The deed was recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on March 6, 1824.

In February 1824, Joseph Law, Sr, as Lambright’s executor, rented to William Ward, planter of Liberty County, the estate’s farm “in the neighborhood of Sunbury” and hired out to him “the negroes belonging to the estate of James Lambright, consisting of eight workers, for which said Ward agreed to pay five hundred dollars for one year, and to feed & clothe the said eight negroes, and five small ones for one year, to end second of February 1825.” Witnessed by Sam’l [Samuel] S. Law. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on March 15, 1824.